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PaloAltoOnline.com

Vol. XXXIV, Number 42 N July 19, 2013

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Connoisseurs’ Marketplace program

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Transitions 15

Spectrum 16

Eating Out 26

Movies 29

Home 37

Puzzles 62

N News New office building proposed for downtown

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N Arts Jewish film festival: documentaries to dramas

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N Sports Happy Wimbledon champ heads to Stanford

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CIT Y O F PALO ALTO PR ESE NTS TH E 29TH ANN UAL

TIME & PLACE 5K walk 7:00pm, 10K run 8:15pm, 5K run 8:45pm. Race-night registration 6 to 8pm at City of Palo Alto Baylands Athletic Center, Embarcadero & Geng Roads (just east of the Embarcadero Exit off Highway 101). Parking — go to PaloAltoOnline.com to check for specific parking locations.

5K WALK, 5K & 10K RUN Great for kids and families

COURSE 5k and 10k courses around the Palo Alto Baylands under the light of the Full Harvest Moon. Course is USAT&F certified (10k only) and flat along paved roads. Water at all stops. Course maps coming soon.

REGISTRATIONS & ENTRY FEE Adult Registration (13 +) registration fee is $30 per entrant by 9/13/13. Includes a long-sleeved t-shirt. Youth Registration (6 - 12) registration is $20 per entrant by 9/13/13. Includes a long-sleeved t-shirt. Youth (5 and under) run free with an adult, but must be registered through Evenbrite with signed parental guardian waiver, or may bring/fill out a signed waiver to race-night registration. Late Registration fee is $35 for adults, $25 for youth from 9/14 - 9/18. Race night registration fee is $40 for adult; $30 for youth from 6 to 8pm. T-shirts available only while supplies last. Refunds will not be issued for no-show registrations and t-shirts will not be held. MINORS: If not pre-registered, minors under 18 must bring signed parental/waiver form on race night.

SPORTS TEAM/CLUBS: Online pre-registration opportunity for organizations of 10 or more runners; e-mail MoonlightRun@paweekly.com.

DIVISIONS Age divisions: 9 & under; 10 - 12; 13 - 15; 16 - 19; 20 - 24; 25 - 29; 30 - 34; 35 - 39; 40 - 44; 45 - 49; 50 - 54; 55 - 59; 60 - 64; 65 - 69; 70 & over with separate divisions for male and female runners in each age group. Race timing provided for 5K and 10K runs only.

COMPUTERIZED RESULTS BY A CHANGE OF PACE Chip timing results will be posted on PaloAltoOnline.com by 11pm race night. Race organizers are not responsible for incorrect results caused by incomplete/incorrect registration forms.

AWARDS/PRIZES/ENTERTAINMENT Top three finishers in each division. Prize giveaways and refreshments. Pre-race warmups by Noxcuses Fitness, Palo Alto

BENEFICIARY Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund. A holiday-giving fund to benefit Palo Alto area nonprofits and charitable organizations. In April 2013, 55 organizations received a total of $380,000 (from the 2012-2013 Holiday Fund.)

FRIDAY SEPT 20 7PM A benefit event for local non-profits supporting kids and families

MORE INFORMATION Call (650) 463-4920, (650) 326-8210, email MoonlightRun@paweekly.com or go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com. For safety reasons, no dogs allowed on course for the 5K and 10K runs. They are welcome on the 5K walk only. No retractable leashes. Bring your own clean-up bag. Jogging strollers welcome in the 5K walk or at the back of either run.

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Event Sponsors

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Upfront

Local news, information and analysis

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ECONOMY

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Powered by the sun, and rarin’ to go A team of 600 Stanford University students created Luminos, a solar-powered car, which was unveiled July 12 during a public test drive. The car will be competing in the World Solar Challenge in Australia in October. After some last-minute tweaks, the car will be shipped to Australia on July 22.

TECHNOLOGY

Game-making internship: summer fun, with a possibility of profit Entrepreneurs enlist students to build iPhone games, with a little help ARRYING HIS LAPTOP AND LUNCH YEAR OLD 'AUTAM -ITTAL GETS A RIDE FROM HIS DAD TO HIS SUMMER INTERNSHIP EACH MORNING )N A SPRAWLING SINGLE STORY HOUSE IN 0ALO !LTO S #RESCENT 0ARK NEIGH BORHOOD HE SPENDS HIS WEEKDAYS SITTING AT LONG WHITE TABLES WITH DOZENS OF OTHER LOCAL TEENS QUIETLY WRITING CODE FOR I0HONE GAMES 'AUTAM A *,3 -IDDLE 3CHOOL EIGHTH GRADER IS WORKING ON A GAME THAT CHALLENGES PLAYERS TO MATCH COLORED CIRCLES FALLING ONTO

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Upfront

August Events for Active Adults

Avenidas Fitness Camp Aug. 20, 9 am - 3 pm Channing House 850 Webster St., Palo Alto Call 650-289-5436 for more information or to register.

PUBLISHER William S. Johnson (223-6505)

Family Caregiving 101 A year-long series of free workshops Avenidas Rose Kleiner Center 270 Escuela Avenue Mountain View Self-Care Thursday, Aug. 22, 7 pm Falls Prevention Thursday, Sept. 26, 7 pm Stress Management Thursday, Oct. 24, 7 pm Call 650-289-5499 for more information or to register.

Resources and programs for positve aging

(650) 289-5405 | www.avenidas.org

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Successful Aging Celebration Sat. Aug. 10, 9:30 am - 1:30 pm Palo Alto Medical Foundation 701 East El Camino Real, Mountain View A free day of seminars, art, music, food, prizes, a movie and more! Call 650-934-7380 for more information or to register.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

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We only make money if what we taught you is useful. — Ashutosh Desai, a 20-year-old entrepreneur and founder of MakeGamesWithUs, on teaching summer interns to create mobile apps. See story on page 3.

Around Town PEACE OUT ... Palo Alto Mayor Greg Scharff has withdrawn from the Mayors for Peace, an international organization headquartered in Hiroshima, Japan, after nearly 30 years of Palo Alto mayoral endorsement, he has confirmed. Late Mayor Jim Burch endorsed Mayors for Peace in 1985, after appeals by hundreds of local citizens, according to Paul George executive director of the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center. Prior to Burch’s action, the City Council approved a resolution endorsing a freeze on nuclear weapons. But subsequent mayors haven’t passed along the mantle. Scharff said he first became aware of the city’s membership after receiving emails from the organization to attend a conference in Hiroshima. Scharff said the council did not vote in a resolution to join the group. He strongly believes a city’s role is to its constituents. “My job is filling potholes,� he said, referring literally to road repairs. If the council were to pass a resolution supporting the membership, Scharff said he would follow that resolution. Flying to Hiroshima at taxpayer expense is also a no-go, he said. But George said the proper response “would be a polite ‘no,’ not canceling Palo Alto’s membership. The bigger question here is a familiar one: Is it appropriate for a city council to take a stand on issues that do not seem to be directly related to city business? ... We live in a representative democracy, and council members are elected representatives. On occasion, those whom they represent will ask to have their voices amplified on important issues of the day. When something means so much to so many local residents, it becomes a local issue, regardless of the broader context. We hope the mayor will reconsider his decision,� he said. WORLD’S ‘TOP CHOICE’ SCHOOL? ... Stanford University hit a milestone of sorts in 2005, when the number of undergraduate applications surpassed 20,000 for the first time. That, however, is nothing by today’s standards. This year, that number of applications was nearly double, with 38,828 applications. Only 2,210 students were admitted. “Stanford has become a top choice for undergraduates worldwide,� university President John Hennessy told alumni in the July/August issue of Stanford Magazine. Recognizing a “dramatic increase in qualified applicants� and feeling the “responsibility and ability�

to educate more students, Hennessy said he hopes to slowly increase undergraduate enrollment from 6,590 to about 8,000 over 10 to 15 years. A GROWING TERRACE ... Change has long been the norm in Palo Alto’s College Terrace neighborhood, whose close proximity to Stanford University, Stanford Research Park and the California Avenue Business District make it particularly vulnerable to the effects of new developments. But the latest building project to make its way toward College Terrace would effectively transform and expand the neighborhood. Under the “Mayfield Development Agreement� that the city and Stanford University signed in 2005, the university is allowed to build 180 units of housing at 1601 California Ave., which would include 68 single-family homes and two four-story apartment buildings with 112 units. On Thursday, the city’s Architectural Review Board discussed the project and made some suggestions about the architecture and road designs (it didn’t take any action). In designing the housing, the goal was to “make this project a natural organic extension of the College Terrace neighborhood,� landscape architect Paul Laterri of Guzzardo Partnership told the board. Brent Barker, president of the College Terrace Neighborhood Association, agreed and said he hopes the new development is “not set up to be an island tethered to College Terrace but an integral part of College Terrace.� THE ORIGINAL TESLA ... To Palo Alto resident Dorrian Porter, Nikola Tesla may be the most fitting representative for the city. It’s not just because the technology based on his inventions represents the foundations (and fortunes) of some of the city’s greatest innovators, including his namesake company, Tesla Motors, whose cars use an alternating-current induction motor like the one originally invented by Tesla. Porter, who started a successful Kickstarter campaign to build a statue of Tesla in Palo Alto, also wanted to “pay respect to the person who used his brilliance to advance society, not for personal wealth.� The project raised $127,260 from 722 backers, more than $5,000 above its target, to build a 7-foot bronze–cast statue of Tesla near Harold Hohbach’s recently approved “Park Plaza� development at 195 Page Mill Road. Fittingly, the statue will be a wireless hotspot and have a time capsule to be opened in 2043. N

Upfront EDUCATION

Despite ‘satisfactory’ review, Skelly contract not extended beyond 2016 Palo Alto superintendent’s salary remains the same ALO !LTO SCHOOL DISTRICT 3UPERIN TENDENT +EVIN 3KELLY RECEIVED A SATISFACTORY PERFORMANCE REVIEW FOR BUT HIS CONTRACT WAS NOT EXTENDED BEYOND THE CUR RENT EXPIRATION DATE OF *UNE "OARD OF %DUCATION 0RESIDENT $ANA 4OM CONFIRMED THIS WEEK 3KELLY S SALARY WILL BE THE SAME AMOUNT HE HAS RECEIVED ANNUALLY FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS ACCORDING TO 3COTT "OWERS

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%ACH YEAR SINCE THEN EXCEPT FOR AND THE CONTRACT HAS BEEN EXTENDED FOR AN ADDITIONAL YEAR 4HE "OARD OF %DUCATION MET *UNE FOR ITS ANNUAL FULL DAY EVALUA TION OF THE SUPERINTENDENT S PERFOR MANCE 4HE REVIEW INCLUDED DISCUSSION OF STRENGTHS AS WELL AS THINGS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE BETTER AND FU TURE GOALS 4OM SAID N — Palo Alto Weekly staff

COURTS

Driver who struck bicyclist won’t be charged Misdemeanor charge of driving with a suspended license pending, deputy DA says by Sue Dremann

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STRUCK HIM FROM BEHIND BREAKING HIS BICYCLE FRAME IN TWO AND DAMAGING THE .ISSAN S FRONT BUMPER HOOD AND WINDSHIELD 4HE BOY WAS WEARING A BIKE HELMET BUT HE SUSTAINED A LEG AND WRIST FRACTURE A BROKEN JAW BRO KEN TEETH AND BRAIN SWELLING ACCORD ING TO A POLICE REPORT (E STILL SUFFERS TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES RESULTING IN PHYSICAL COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EMOTIONAL ISSUES ACCORDING TO A MILLION CLAIM THE FAMILY FILED AGAINST THE #ITY OF 0ALO !LTO (AU TOLD POLICE HE WAS DRIVING BETWEEN AND MPH 4HE SPEED LIMIT IS MPH (ENDRICKSON SAID (AU S LICENSE WAS SUSPENDED IN -AY FOR FAILURE TO PAY A FINE AND HE WAS LATER CONVICTED FOR DRIV ING WITH A SUSPENDED LICENSE IN 3EP TEMBER (ENDRICKSON SAID ! TOXICOLOGY ANALYSIS AT THE TIME OF THE .OVEMBER COLLISION FOUND THAT (AU HAD A TRACE AMOUNT OF METHAM

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DRIVER WHO HAD A SMALL AMOUNT OF METHAMPHETAMINE IN HIS BLOOD WHEN HE STRUCK AND CRITICALLY INJURED A YEAR OLD 0ALO !LTO BOY WILL NOT FACE CRIMI NAL CHARGES IN THE CRASH 3UPERVIS ING $EPUTY $ISTRICT !TTORNEY #INDY (ENDRICKSON SAID ON 4HURSDAY ,UIS &ELIPE (AU OF 3UNNYVALE WAS DRIVING SOUTH ON 0ARK "OULEVARD NEAR 3HERMAN !VENUE WHEN HE VEERED INTO THE BICYCLE LANE AND STRUCK 3E BASTIAN ,ERRICK ON .OV (AU TOLD POLICE THE SUN WAS IN HIS EYES AND HE DID NOT SEE THE BOY ! BLOOD TEST LATER DETERMINED THAT HE HAD A SMALL AMOUNT OF METHAMPHETAMINE IN HIS SYSTEM (E WAS ALSO DRIVING WITH A SUSPENDED LICENSE FOR NOT PAY ING A FINE (ENDRICKSON SAID "OTH FACTORS DID NOT ADD UP TO A WINNABLE CASE UNDER THE LAW (EN DRICKSON SAID h7HEN A LITTLE BOY ON HIS BIKE GETS HIT BY A VEHICLE AND GRIEVOUSLY IN JURED THROUGH NO FAULT OF HIS OWN

What’s happening here? Where: Pacific Art League, 668 Ramona St., Palo Alto What: Renovation of the historic building, adding 5,000 square feet for a total of 13,500 square feet. When: Expected re-opening June 2014 Who: Oliver and Company, General Contractors, Berkeley Cost: $5.5 million, paid for by the nonprofit Pacific Art League Impact: Access to sidewalk on Ramona adjacent to the construction site is limited; intermittent deliveries of construction materials and equipment. Of note: The exterior will maintain its historic appearance and structure. The building will feature an elevator, comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act and be wired for Internet access. A new space for corporations developing creative-learning teams will be added. Online art classes, art courses for mobile and digital media and many traditional art programs will be offered. N

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TRANSPORTATION

Bike-share system rolls into Peninsula Palo Alto train commuters can hop a bike for the last mile by Daniel DeBolt EMBERSHIPS WENT ON SALE -ONDAY *ULY FOR THE BIKE SHARING SYSTEM DE BUTING IN 0ALO !LTO AND THE 0EN INSULA NEXT MONTH /FFICIALS ARE PROMISING LOCAL USERS WON T SEE THE GLITCHES THAT RECENTLY TRIG GERED A SLEW OF COMPLAINTS IN .EW 9ORK 4HE BIKE SYSTEM EXTENDS FROM KEY TRAIN STATIONS ON THE 0EN INSULA 3AN &RANCISCO 2EDWOOD #ITY -OUNTAIN 6IEW 0ALO !LTO AND 3AN *OSE )T WILL BE RUN BY THE !LTA "IKE 3HARE THE SAME COM PANY RESPONSIBLE FOR .EW 9ORK S NEW SYSTEM 4HAT SYSTEM MADE HEADLINES WHEN COMPLAINTS POURED IN ABOUT THE NUMBER OF AUTOMATED BIKE STALLS THAT WOULDN T RELEASE BIKES OR TAKE THEM BACK FRUSTRAT

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WERE FUNDED TO DO WITH THIS GRANT WE RECEIVED WE WERE VERY SUC CESSFUL v "REEN SAID OF THE SYSTEM WHOSE PLANNING STRETCHES BACK TO h7HAT WE RE LAUNCHING IS A PILOT 4HIS SYSTEM COULD BE A BUILD ING BLOCK FOR A LARGER AND "AY !R EA WIDE SYSTEM 4HE DIRECTORS FROM OUR BOARD AND A LOT OF OUR LEADERS IN THE "AY !REA WOULD LIKE TO SEE THIS SYSTEM BECOME LARGER v 0ALO !LTO WILL RECEIVE RENTAL BIKES WITH THE MAJORITY LOCATED AT THE DOWNTOWN TRAIN STATION AND ON THE 3TANFORD 5NIVERSITY CAMPUS "REEN SAID CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP OF THE SYSTEM MAY HELP FUND THE SYSTEM S EXPANSION AS WAS DONE IN .EW 9ORK WHERE THE BIKES HAVE THE NAME OF A WELL KNOWN BANK PAINTED ON THEM

!IKO #UENCO OF THE 3ANTA #LARA 6ALLEY 4RANSPORTATION !UTHORITY SAID BIKE SHARING COULD BE CONSID ERED hAN EXTENSION OF THE TRANSIT SYSTEM v PROVIDING A CONNECTION FROM TRAIN STATIONS FOR EXAMPLE TO WHEREVER SOMEONE IS GOING IN THE hLAST MILEv OF THEIR JOURNEY h7E PRICE IT IN SUCH A WAY THAT PEOPLE DON T KEEP THE BIKE ANY LON GER THAN IS NEEDED v #UENCO SAID h)T S NOT A RENTAL SYSTEM IT S AN EX TENSION OF THE TRANSIT SYSTEM v 4HE SYSTEM ENCOURAGES SHORT RIDES BY NOT CHARGING FOR RIDES OF MINUTES OR LESS (OUR LONG RIDES ARE AND EVERY HALF HOUR AFTER THAT COSTS 4HOSE LOOKING TO RIDE FOR LONGER PERIODS CAN GET AROUND THE TIME LIMIT BY RIDING TO ANOTHER STATION AND SWITCHING TO

ANOTHER BIKE 4HE SYSTEM WORKS FOR ANYONE WITH A CREDIT CARD AND AT LEAST WHICH IS THE COST OF A HOUR MEMBERSHIP 4HERE S ALSO A THREE DAY MEMBERSHIP AND AN ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP 4HE SYSTEM WILL BE UP AND RUN NING NEXT MONTH THOUGH AN EXACT DATE HAS YET TO BE ANNOUNCED 4HE PILOT PROGRAM IS FUNDED THROUGH LOCAL AND REGIONAL GRANTS IN COMBINATION WITH A MILLION GRANT FROM THE -ETROPOLITAN 4RANS PORTATION #OMMISSION S #LIMATE )NITIATIVES 'RANT PROGRAM -ORE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT WWW BAYAREABIKESHARE COM N Staff Writer Daniel DeBolt writes for the Weekly’s sister paper, the Mountain View Voice.

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HEN 0ALO !LTO OFFICIALS AGREED LAST MONTH TO REZONE PROPERTY ON -AYBELL AND #LEMO AVENUES TO ENABLE CONSTRUCTION OF A SENIOR HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AND HOMES THEY ISSUED A WARNING TO THE ANGRY MASSES OPPOS ING THE ZONE CHANGE "E CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR )F THE 0ALO !LTO (OUSING #ORPORATION PROCEEDS WITH THE APPROVED PLAN IT WILL BUILD APARTMENTS FOR LOW INCOME SENIORS AND A DOZEN HOMES TO BE SOLD AT MARKET RATE 0RO CEEDS FROM THE MARKET RATE HOMES WOULD SUBSIDIZE THE SE NIOR HOUSING "UT EVEN IF VOTERS OVERTURN THIS PLAN IN A .OVEMBER REF ERENDUM THE LAND IS UNLIKELY TO REMAIN DORMANT &ROM THE CITY S PERSPECTIVE SHOULD THE REFERENDUM SUCCEED AND THE ZONE CHANGE BE REVERSED THE ELECTION COULD BE A 0YRRHIC VICTORY FOR THE RESIDENTS %FFECTIVELY IT WOULD LEAVE THE DOOR OPEN FOR A PROJECT THAT COULD BRING GREATER TRAFFIC PROBLEMS THAN WHAT S BEING PROPOSED BY THE NONPROFIT DEVELOPER %XISTING ZONING RULES ENTITLE THE PROPERTY OWNER TO BUILD HOMES ON THE ACRE SITE CURRENTLY OCCUPIED BY A FEW HOMES AND AN ORCHARD 4HE NUMBER COULD GO UP HOWEVER IF THE DEVELOPER WERE TO OFFER SOME OF THESE HOMES AT BELOW MARKET RATES !CCORDING TO CITY PLANNER 4IM 7ONG PROJECT MANAGER FOR THE -AYBELL PROPOSAL A DEVELOPER WOULD BE AL LOWED TO INCREASE DENSITY BY PERCENT IF PERCENT OF THE DEVELOPMENT IS DEVOTED TO HOUSING FOR RESIDENTS AT THE hVERY LOWv INCOME LEVEL OR IF PERCENT IS BUILT FOR THOSE EARNING A hLOWv INCOME )F A DEVELOPER WERE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS hDENSITY BONUS v WHICH IS ENCODED IN STATE LAW THE NUMBER OF HOMES ALLOWED AT THE SITE WOULD INCREASE TO 7ONG SAID AT THE COUNCIL S *UNE MEETING 4HIS ALTERNATIVE WAS A MAJOR CONSIDERATION IN THE COUN CIL S DEEPLY CONTROVERSIAL DECISION TO APPROVE THE ZONE CHANGE %VEN THOUGH THE -AYBELL PROJECT WOULD LEAD TO GREATER DENSITY AT THE SITE COUNCIL MEMBERS AGREED THAT THE CHANGES TO TRAFFIC WOULD BE HARDLY NOTICEABLE OWING TO THE EXPECTATION THAT SENIORS DRIVE FAR LESS FREQUENTLY IF AT ALL 4HE PREDICTED TRAFFIC WOULD BE LESS THAN THAT OF A DEVELOPMENT THAT IS COMPLIANT WITH THE ORIGINAL RESIDENTIAL ZONING h7E KNOW THERE WOULD BE HOMES IF NOT DONE BY THIS APPLICANT &RANKLY IT COULD BE CLOSER TO BY RIGHT AND THERE S NOTHING WE CAN DO TO STOP THAT FROM BEING BUILT v #OUNCILMAN -ARC "ERMAN SAID *UNE "ERMAN WHO ANALYZED THE TRAFFIC IN THE AREA OVER A SERIES OF VISITS TO THE SITE BROUGHT UP THIS FACTOR IN SUPPORTING THE SENIOR HOUSING PLAN %VEN UNDER A CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE THAT

The proposed development by the Palo Alto Housing Corporation would bring 60 units of housing for lowincome seniors and 12 single-family homes to a former orchard site at 567 Maybell Ave.

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Referendum petition submitted in Palo Alto Citizens seek to overturn City Council’s approval of housing development on Maybell Avenue HE SIGNATURES ARE IN AND 0ALO !LTO MAY BE HEADING FOR A .O VEMBER ELECTION )F THE 3ANTA #LARA #OUNTY 2EGIS TRAR OF 6OTERS CONFIRMS THE PETITION SIGNATURES COLLECTED BY 0ALO !LTO CITIZENS VOTERS WILL HAVE A CHANCE THIS FALL TO OVERTURN A *UNE DECI SION BY THE #ITY #OUNCIL TO REVISE THE CITY S #OMPREHENSIVE 0LAN TO AC COMMODATE A HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ON -AYBELL AND #LEMO AVENUES 4HE CONTROVERSIAL DEVELOPMENT PROPOSED BY THE 0ALO !LTO (OUSING #ORPORATION INCLUDES A UNIT HOUS ING COMPLEX FOR SENIORS AND SINGLE FAMILY HOMES (see story above) 4O REVERSE THE COUNCIL S APPROV AL RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN WORKING TO QUALIFY TWO REFERENDUMS FOR THE .OVEMBER BALLOT ONE THAT WOULD SPECIFICALLY OVERTURN THE COUNCIL S

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APPROVAL OF THE PROJECT AND ANOTHER ONE THAT WOULD REVERSE THE CHANGE TO THE #OMPREHENSIVE 0LAN #ITIZENS HAD TO GET SIGNA TURES FOR EACH PETITION TO QUALIFY IT FOR THE BALLOT 4HE ONE FOR THE #OM PREHENSIVE 0LAN WAS DUE 7EDNES DAY AND PETITIONERS SUBMITTED THE SIGNATURES TO THE /FFICE OF THE #ITY #LERK AT ABOUT P M ACCORDING TO !SSISTANT #ITY #LERK "ETH -INOR 4HOUGH THE SIGNATURES ARE YET TO BE VERIFIED BY THE COUNTY REGISTRAR THE NUMBER WELL EXCEEDS THE RE QUIRED AMOUNT #ITY #LERK $ONNA 'RIDER ACCEPTED THE SHEETS OF SIGNA TURES AND RETURNED A RECEIPT SHOWING SIGNATURES HAD BEEN COLLECTED "OB -OSS A "ARRON 0ARK RESIDENT WHO IS PART OF THE CAMPAIGN SAID THE EFFORT HAS RECEIVED SUPPORT FROM ALL PARTS OF 0ALO !LTO WITH PEOPLE

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hCONCERNED ABOUT THE SCALE OF DE VELOPMENTS GOING IN AND THE TRAFFIC IMPACTS ON CITY SERVICES v h7E WERE DELIGHTED AND IM PRESSED WITH HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ANGRY ABOUT OVERDEVELOPMENT IN 0ALO !LTO v -OSS SAID 4HE REGISTRAR S OFFICE HAS DAYS TO VERIFY THE SIGNATURES "ECAUSE THE COUNCIL FORMALLY AP PROVED THE SPECIFIC -AYBELL PROJECT PLAN ON *UNE AFTER WHAT S KNOWN AS A hSECOND READINGv AND RESIDENTS HAVE DAYS TO GATHER SIGNATURES FOR A REFERENDUM THE PETITION FOR THAT DECISION ISN T DUE UNTIL LATER THIS MONTH 4HE CITY S LAST REFERENDUM TOOK PLACE IN WHEN VOTERS UNSUC CESSFULLY CHALLENGED A DEVELOPMENT AT (IGH 3T N — Gennady Sheyner

VIDEO: First Person with Jim Fruchterman Jim Fruchterman, rocket scientist-turned-social entrepreneur and founder/CEO of Benetech, a Palo Alto nonprofit, develops technology to “truly help change the world.” Fruchterman talks about his current projects and his determination to help the tech community do much more to serve others in this First Person interview with Lisa Van Dusen. To watch the video, go to PaloAltoOnline.com. N

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Neighborhoods

A roundup of neighborhood news edited by Sue Dremann

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RAMADAN CELEBRATION ... Evergreen Park resident Samina Sundas is hosting an Iftar dinner in celebration of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The dinner will take place Sunday, July 21, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at her home. Muslims fast during the entire month between sunrise and sunset, taking food and water only thereafter. The dinner is free and open to all who want to celebrate peace between cultures and faiths and to build community. Persons wanting to attend are asked to RSVP to Sundas at saminasundas@gmail.com. CARING ABOUT CREEKS ... A celebration of Barron Park’s creeks will take place Aug. 23 from 4 to 5:30 p.m., at which time the Barron Park Association Green Team will add new Creeks and Watersheds signage for Barron and Matadero creeks. There will also be creekthemed activities for kids, a creek watershed talk by Barron Park Historian Doug Graham, snacks and free reusable shopping bags. The signs are sponsored by the Regional Water Quality Control Plant in cooperation with the environmental nonprofit Acterra’s stewardship program. The event will take place at Bol Park, 3590 Laguna Ave., Palo Alto. COOP DU JOUR ... Palo Alto residents who have a chicken coop or who are interested in setting one up are invited to participate Sept. 14 in the 2013 Silicon Valley Tour de Coop by tour organizers. Event and coop information is available at www.tourdecoop.org. N

Send announcements of neighborhood events, meetings and news to Sue Dremann, Neighborhoods editor, at sdremann@paweekly.com. Or talk about your neighborhood news on Town Square at www. PaloAltoOnline.com.

An ‘Oscar’ of an idea Barron Park rolls out the red carpet — and robots — for outdoor movie night by Sue Dremann NCE UPON A TIME DRIVE IN MOVIES WERE A BIG FAMILY PAS TIME AND THEY WERE PART OF THE COLLECTIVE CULTURE "UT THOSE BIG OUTDOOR SCREENS AND COMMUNITY AF FAIRS HAVE LARGELY DISAPPEARED .OT SO IN "ARRON 0ARK WHERE THE BIG SCREEN WILL RETURN ON 3ATURDAY *ULY FOR .EIGHBORHOOD -OVIE .IGHT UNDER THE STARS 4HAT S WHEN THE POPULAR MOVIE h7ALL %v WILL BE PROJECTED ONTO A FOOT INFLATABLE SCREEN AT "OL 0ARK 2EAL ROBOTS BUILT BY RESIDENTS WILL BE DEMONSTRATED TOO SAID EVENT ORGANIZER ,YDIA +OU -OVIE NIGHT IS SPONSORED BY THE "ARRON 0ARK !SSOCIATION WITH A GRANT FROM THE #ITY OF 0ALO !LTO S +NOW 9OUR .EIGHBORS PRO GRAM !ND YES THERE WILL BE FREE POPCORN ˆ FOR AS LONG AS IT LASTS SHE SAID +OU HAS BEEN LOOKING FOR WAYS TO CELEBRATE "ARRON 0ARK S CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND GET NEIGHBORS AC QUAINTED 3HE SPEARHEADED A #HI NESE ,UNAR .EW 9EAR CELEBRATION THAT INCLUDED LION DANCERS AND TRA DITIONAL FOODS EARLIER THIS YEAR 4HIS TIME SHE S GOING FOR A MORE UNIVER SALLY APPEALING EXPERIENCE AND THE DRIVE IN REPRESENTS !MERICAN TRADI TION SHE SAID h)T S A FUN THING TO DO IT S A WHOLE SOME FAMILY EVENT THAT WE DON T HAVE MUCH ANYMORE 3O ) THOUGHT @7HY NOT HAVE IT IN THE PARK )NSTEAD OF DRIVING WE CAN RIDE OUR BIKE OR WALK IN v SHE SAID 2ESIDENTS SENT HER MOVIE IDEAS BY EMAIL h3HREKv RECEIVED THE MOST VOTES "ARRON 0ARK DONKEYS -INER ER AND 0ERRY WHO WAS THE MODEL FOR THE DONKEY IN h3HREK v WERE TO BE IN ATTENDANCE h) PLANNED TO HAVE THEM COME IN ON A RED CARPET AND HAVE A PHOTO OP PORTUNITY v SHE SAID "UT SHE COULD NOT OBTAIN A MOVIE RENTAL LICENSE FOR THE FILM h@7ALL % WAS A CLOSE SECOND AND IT S JUST AS FUN v SHE SAID 2EAL ROBOTS ARE WELCOME TO AT TEND SHE ADDED 4REVOR .IELSEN A 'UNN (IGH 3CHOOL JUNIOR AND MEMBER OF THE 'UNN 2OBOTICS 4EAM SAID HE WILL BRING h/MEGA 3UPREME v A WAIST HIGH CRAB LIKE CREATION MADE OF ALUMINUM ,EXAN STEEL AND FIBER GLASS !BOUT STUDENTS CREATED THE RED AND BLACK ROBOT WHICH CAN SHOOT &RISBEES AND CLIMB

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UP CLOSE AND K-9 PERSONAL ... Getting close enough to a patrol car to pet a police dog is usually not advisable, but on Saturday, July 20, residents can meet Eddie, the newest member of the Palo Alto Police Department’s K-9 unit. Two-year-old Eddie will make an appearance from 3 to 4 p.m. at Heritage Park, 300 Homer Ave., in the University South neighborhood. Chief Dennis Burns will speak, and Eddie’s handler will give a brief presentation. Residents can watch Eddie perform obedience drills and check out his specially equipped police car.

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Rising seniors Trevor Nielsen, 17, and Catherine Nguyen, 16, make adjustments to the Gunn High School Robotics Team’s Frisbee-launching robot. Nielsen will be bringing the robot to the screening of “Wall-E� on July 27 in Bol Park. A PYRAMID )N -ARCH THE TEAM WON THE &)234 2OBOTICS #OM PETITION REGIONAL AWARD IN 5TAH FOR ITS WORK 4HEY ALSO COMPETED IN OTHER REGIONALS AND THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN 3T ,OUIS -O HE SAID .IELSEN PLANS TO SHOW OFF THE RO BOT S &RISBEE SHOOTING CAPABILITIES AS PART OF THE *ULY EVENT h) WANT TO GET MIDDLE SCHOOL KIDS EXCITED ABOUT IT v HE SAID "UILDING THE ROBOT WAS hIN CREDIBLY CHALLENGING v )T TOOK THE

TEAM SIX WEEKS OF WORKING EVERY DAY AFTER SCHOOL UNTIL P M AND HOURS A DAY ON WEEKENDS HE SAID *ULY IS ALSO )NTERNATIONAL $ANCE $AY AND +OU HOPES KIDS AND THEIR PARENTS WILL TEACH OTHERS THE DANCES OF THEIR CULTURES 7ITH ANY LUCK +OU SAID PEOPLE WILL BE INSPIRED TO GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER BETTER AND TO VENTURE OUT OF THEIR COMFORT ZONES h)T S ABOUT RESPECTING EACH OTHER AND EVERYONE ˆ BEING A NEIGHBOR

HOOD AND HELPING NEIGHBORS )T S ABOUT LEARNING THE OTHER SIDE OF THESE PEOPLE 7E SEE ONE SIDE OF EVERYBODY BUT THERE ARE SO MANY PRIVATE THINGS YOU DON T KNOW v "ARRON 0ARK S .EIGHBORHOOD -OVIE .IGHT WILL START AT P M WITH THE ROBOT VIEWING AND A SOCIAL 4HE FILM WILL START AT DUSK 2ESI DENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO BRING THEIR OWN SNACKS AND BLANKETS N Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@paweekly.com.

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University presidents gather in Palo Alto to ponder future of higher ed Online-learning explosion disrupts traditional academic, financial models by Chris Kenrick ORE THAN A DOZEN PRESIDENTS OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES WILL GATHER IN 0ALO !LTO THIS WEEKEND TO BRAINSTORM ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE FAST CHANGING WORLD OF HIGHER EDUCATION 4HE PRESIDENTS WILL PONDER NEW ACADEMIC AND FINANCIAL MODELS FOR THEIR INSTITUTIONS THAT ARE BEING DRIV EN BY THE GLOBAL EXPLOSION IN ONLINE LEARNING INCLUDING THE RISE OF MAS SIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES -//#S 3UCH COURSES HAVE ATTRACTED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD TO A SINGLE CLASS SUCH AS )NTRODUCTION TO $ATABASES OFFERED BY 3TANFORD 5NIVERSITY COMPUTER SCIENCE 0ROFESSOR *ENNIFER 7IDOM ! PLETHORA OF FOR PROFIT AND NON PROFIT EDUCATION STARTUPS INCLUDING LOCAL FIRMS SUCH AS 5DACITY 5DEMY AND #OURSERA ARE VYING FOR STUDENTS IN THE NEW GLOBAL ONLINE CLASSROOM 2ESEARCHERS FROM THE 0ALO !LTO THINK TANK )NSTITUTE FOR THE &UTURE WILL GUIDE THE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS DISCUSSIONS WHICH ARE SET FOR 3UN DAY AND -ONDAY #OLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LEADERS AT TENDING RUN THE GAMUT FROM THE )VY

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News Digest Google makes big buy in south Palo Alto -OUNTAIN 6IEW BASED 'OOGLE )NC HAS BOUGHT SEVEN PROPERTIES ON %AST -EADOW #IRCLE IN SOUTH 0ALO !LTO AN AREA THE CITY HAS ENVISIONED FOR LIGHT COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT THE COMPANY HAS CONFIRMED ! SPOKESPERSON FOR THE )NTERNET SEARCH GIANT WHICH WAS FOUNDED IN 0ALO !LTO STATED IN AN EMAIL THAT THE COMPANY BOUGHT THE PROPERTIES LOCATED AT AND %AST -EADOW #IRCLE WHICH WERE OWNED BY THE #ALIFORNIA 0ACIFIC #OMMERCIAL #ORP ACCORDING TO THE 3ANTA #LARA #OUNTY !SSESSOR 4HOMAS &EHRENBACH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MANAGER FOR THE #ITY OF 0ALO !LTO SAID THE CITY HASN T SEEN ANY DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS FROM 'OOGLE FOR POTENTIAL USES FOR THE PROPERTY )N THE #ITY #OUNCIL PASSED A PLAN TO POTENTIALLY ALLOW FOR GREATER DENSITY IN THE AREA OF %AST -EADOW #IRCLE IN ORDER TO ENCOURAGE BUSI NESSES TO COME TO THE AREA )NTERIM CITY PLANNING DIRECTOR !ARON !KNIN SAID LARGER MORE DENSE BUILDINGS WOULD NEED TO BE LOCATED NEARER 5 3 (IGHWAY WHILE THE BUILDINGS NEAR SINGLE FAMILY HOMES IN THE AREA WOULD BE LESS DENSE TO CREATE A BUFFER BETWEEN THE RESIDENTIAL AREA AND THE COMMERCIAL SPACE !KNIN SAID THERE WILL BE NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT WHEN A CONCEPT IS PROPOSED N — Eric Van Susteren

City to prune, remove trees in downtown Palo Alto 4HE #ITY OF 0ALO !LTO WILL REMOVE TREES DOWNTOWN MAINLY ALONG 5NIVERSITY !VENUE AND COMPLETE PRUNING WORK ON OTHER TREES TO EN SURE VEHICLE PEDESTRIAN AND BUILDING CLEARANCE ACCORDING TO A PRESS RELEASE #REWS WILL WORK -ONDAYS THROUGH 3ATURDAYS FROM A M TO P M BETWEEN -IDDLEFIELD 2OAD AND THE NORTHEASTERN CITY LIMIT AT 3AN &RANCIS QUITO #REEK AND WILL TRY TO KEEP MINIMIZE TRAFFIC PROBLEMS THE RELEASE STATED &OUR OF THE TREES MAGNOLIAS LOCATED ALONG 5NIVERSITY !VENUE WILL BE REMOVED SOON DUE TO PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERNS 4HE MAGNOLIAS HAVE SUSTAINED DECAY STRUCTURAL DEFECTS OR LONG TERM DECLINE ACCORDING TO THE RELEASE 4HERE ARE TREES ALONG 5NIVERSITY !VENUE WHERE OF THE TREES SCHEDULED FOR REMOVAL ARE LOCATED -OST OF THEM ARE MAGNOLIAS h4REE MAINTENANCE IS SCHEDULED ON A RECURRING CYCLE OF APPROXIMATELY SEVEN YEARS v SAID 5RBAN &ORESTER 7ALTER 0ASSMORE h4HE FACT THAT WE HAVE SUCH A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF TREE REMOVALS THAT ARE NEEDED INDICATES THAT OUR TREE POPULATION AS A WHOLE IN THIS AREA OF THE CITY IS IN GOOD CONDITION v %LEVEN REPLACEMENT TREES WILL BE PLANTED IN THE FALL WHEN THE COOLER WETTER WEATHER WILL IMPROVE THE SURVIVAL OF THE TREES 3OME OF THE TREES THAT ARE BEING REMOVED WILL NOT BE REPLACED BECAUSE OF UNDERGROUND UTIL ITY LINES OR COMPETITION FROM PRIVATE TREES AND VEGETATION N — Eric Van Susteren

Police arrest one after early-morning burglary 0OLICE ARRESTED A MAN EARLY &RIDAY MORNING *ULY FOR ALLEGEDLY STEALING IN CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT FROM A #RESCENT 0ARK RESI DENCE UNDER CONSTRUCTION ! SECOND BURGLAR ESCAPED THE SEARCH WHICH INCLUDED TWO CANINE UNITS AND A POLICE PERIMETER AROUND THE NEIGHBOR HOOD ACCORDING TO A POLICE PRESS RELEASE 0OLICE RESPONDED TO A CALL AT A M FROM A RESIDENT OF THE BLOCK OF (AMILTON !VENUE WHO SAID HE HEARD NOISES COMING FROM A NEARBY HOME THAT WAS VACANT DUE TO CONSTRUCTION (E TOLD DISPATCHERS THAT HE WITNESSED TWO MEN PUTTING OBJECTS INTO A VAN PARKED OUTSIDE THE CONSTRUCTION SITE 7HEN POLICE ARRIVED AT THE SCENE THE VAN WAS UNOCCUPIED WITH ITS DOORS OPEN #ONSTRUCTION TOOLS WERE INSIDE THE VAN AND STACKED NEARBY IN FRONT OF A HOLE THAT HAD BEEN PRIED IN THE CHAIN LINK FENCE THAT SURROUNDED THE SITE ACCORDING TO THE RELEASE 4HE OFFICERS HEARD PEOPLE RUNNING IN SIDE THE SITE AND CLIMBING FENCES !FTER POLICE SET UP A CONTAINMENT PERIMETER AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD THEY FOUND A MAN CRAWLING IN THE BUSHES OF A RESIDENCE AT A M ON THE BLOCK OF .EWELL 2OAD (E WAS ARRESTED WITHOUT INCIDENT 4WO CANINE UNITS CONDUCTED A YARD BY YARD SEARCH OF THE AREA BUT WERE UNABLE TO TURN UP THE SECOND MAN WHOM POLICE DESCRIBED AS (ISPANIC AROUND FEET INCHES TALL WITH A THIN BUILD AND WEARING A BROWN SWEATER AND BLUE JEANS 0OLICE BOOKED YEAR OLD %AST 0ALO !LTO RESIDENT )BIS 'ERARDO -AR TINEZ -ENDOZA INTO THE 3ANTA #LARA #OUNTY -AIN *AIL FOR ONE COUNT OF BURGLARY A FELONY 4HE VAN A GREEN &ORD WAS REGISTERED TO -AR TINEZ -ENDOZA 4HE EQUIPMENT WHICH WAS IN A LOCKED SHED INSIDE THE CONSTRUCTION SITE INCLUDED A PORTABLE GENERATOR TABLE SAW AND ASSORTED POWER TOOLS ACCORDING TO THE RELEASE N — Eric Van Susteren LET’S DISCUSS: Read the latest local news headlines and talk about the issues at Town Square at PaloAltoOnline.com

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Fire in East Palo Alto damages two homes UPS driver warns residents of the blaze by Rye Druzin and Karishma Mehrota SECOND ALARM FIRE GUTTED ONE %AST 0ALO !LTO HOME AND DAMAGED ANOTHER SENDING EIGHT ENGINES INTO THE NORTHERN PART OF THE CITY 7EDNESDAY *ULY ! 503 DRIVER WHO ASSISTED RESIDENTS OF ONE OF THE BURNING HOMES WAS SENT TO 3TANFORD (OSPITAL 4HE FIRE STARTED AT AROUND P M AND WAS EXTINGUISHED BY P M )T CAUSED AN ESTIMATED IN DAMAGE TO ONE HOUSE AND AROUND TO THE SECOND ACCORDING TO -ENLO 0ARK &IRE "ATTALION #HIEF "EN -ARRA (E SAID THAT THE FIRE IN THE BLOCK OF 'EORGETOWN 3TREET MAY HAVE BEGUN IN A GRASSY FENCED OFF YARD WIDE EASEMENT BEHIND THE HOMES 7ITNESSES SAID A 503 WORKER WENT INTO THE HOME TO WARN THE RESI DENTS 3OANE 6ALNIKOLL WHO LIVES AT ONE OF THE 'EORGETOWN HOMES SAID THAT HE WAS PLAYING VIDEO GAMES AND WATCHING HIS NEPHEW WHEN HE HEARD HIS SMOKE ALARM BEEPING h! 503 GUY CAME INTO THE FRONT DOOR AND WARNED US TO GET OUT v 6ALNIKOLL SAID (IS SISTER CARRIED HIS NEPHEW OUTSIDE WHERE THEY

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A burnt-out tricycle rests at 2764 Georgetown St. after a two-alarm fire on July 17. Damages to the home are estimated at $200,000.

Burnt clothing and shoes were buried in mud and ash following a two-alarm fire on Georgetown Street in East Palo Alto on Wednesday.

BEFORE THE FIRE STARTED &ROM EYEWITNESS REPORTS AND EVI DENCE ON THE SCENE FLAMES BURNED MOST OF A FOOT TALL TREE CATCHING THE ROOF OF THE HOME AND THE ADJA CENT STRUCTURE ON FIRE ! SHED IN THE BACK WAS COMPLETELY BURNED AND PERSONAL BELONGINGS WERE STREWN ACROSS THE BACKYARD -ANY OF THE WINDOWS IN THE BACK OF THE HOUSE WERE SHATTERED 2UEDA SAID THAT HE HEARD FOUR

LOUD EXPLOSIONS MAKING HIM BE LIEVE THAT THERE WERE SOME PRO PANE TANKS IN THE BACK THAT HAD CAUGHT FIRE (E SAID FIRE TRUCKS ARRIVED AT THE SCENE MINUTES AFTER THE POLICE -ARRA SAID IT WAS UNLIKELY THAT THE TRACTOR WAS INVOLVED IN THE FIRE &IRE INVESTIGATOR *ON *OHNSTON SAID THAT THE FIRE WAS UNUSUAL BE CAUSE IT STARTED OUTSIDE OF THE HOME RATHER THAN INSIDE

h7HEN YOU RE OUTSIDE YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT YOUR SOURCES OF EMISSION AND FIND OUT WHY SOMETHING STARTED OUTSIDE v *OHNSTON SAID N Editorial interns Rye Druzin and Karishma Mehrota can be emailed at rdruzin@paweekly.com and kmehrota@paweekly.com. Photo Intern Christophe Haubursin can be emailed at chaubursin@ paweekly.com.

CityView A round-up of

Palo Alto government action this week

City Council The council did not meet this week.

Architectural Review Board (July 18) Christophe Haubursin

240 Hamilton Ave.: The board approved the design of a proposed four-story, mixed-use building at 240 Hamilton Ave. The 15,000-square-foot development would replace an existing two-story building. Yes: Lew, Lippert, Malone Prichard Absent: Alizadeh, Popp 1601 California Ave.: The board discussed but took no action on a proposal by Stanford Real Estate for demolition of 290,000 square feet of office space to be replaced with 180 housing units, including 68 detached single-family homes and 112 multi-family units, as part of the 2005 Mayfield Development agreement. Action: None

The fire on Georgetown Street stretched into a back easement, burning surrounding grass.

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PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hear updates on the Parks and Recreation Master Plan, the Rinconada Park Master Plan and the reconfiguration of the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 23, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).

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These and other news stories were posted on Palo Alto Online throughout the week. For longer versions, go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com/news or click on “News” in the left, green column.

Google delays office project at NASA Ames !FTER THE #ITY #OUNCIL REFUSED TO APPROVE A SHUTTLE BRIDGE FOR 'OOGLE OVER 3TEVENS #REEK 'OOGLE HAS ANNOUNCED THE DELAY OF A CONTROVERSIAL OFFICE PROJECT THAT WOULD PUT EMPLOYEES AMIDST WILDLIFE AT THE NORTH END OF .!3! !MES 2ESEARCH #ENTER (Posted July 18, 9:25 a.m.)

Child abuse allegations against preschool teacher ! SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE UNIT WITHIN THE -OUNTAIN 6IEW 0OLICE $E PARTMENT IS LOOKING INTO CHILD ABUSE ALLEGATIONS AT A LOCAL PRESCHOOL 0OLICE SAY THAT THERE IS AN ACCUSATION THAT AN EMPLOYEE OF ,ITTLE !CORN 0RESCHOOL INAPPROPRIATELY TOUCHED A STUDENT 0OSTED *ULY P M

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Co-founder’s home burns, 100 cats perish 4HE PRESIDENT OF 3TANFORD #AT .ETWORK NARROWLY ESCAPED A HOUSE FIRE THAT GUTTED HER HOME AND KILLED NEARLY CATS IN THE RESIDENCE (Posted July 17, 9:54 a.m.)

Palo Alto man arrested in hit-and-run -ENLO 0ARK POLICE ARRESTED AND BOOKED INTO COUNTY JAIL &RIDAY NIGHT -ICHAEL &ORD OF 0ALO !LTO ON FELONY CHARGES OF LEAVING THE SCENE OF AN ACCIDENT AFTER COLLIDING WITH TWO VEHICLES AND DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL (Posted July 16, 1:13 p.m.)

East Palo Alto crime down, despite violence wave $ESPITE A SPIKE IN VIOLENCE EXPERIENCED EARLIER THIS YEAR OVERALL CRIME CONTINUES TO DROP IN %AST 0ALO !LTO POLICE #HIEF 2ONALD $AVIS ANNOUNCED ON -ONDAY *ULY &OR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THIS YEAR OVERALL CRIME DROPPED PERCENT (Posted July 16, 9:57 a.m.)

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HP adds three new directors to board (EWLETT 0ACKARD #O TODAY ANNOUNCED THAT IT ADDED THREE NEW MEM BERS TO ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS INCREASING THE SIZE OF THE BOARD FROM NINE MEMBERS TO (Posted July 15, 4:26 p.m.)

ACS adds service to help gay, bisexual teens !DOLESCENT #OUNSELING 3ERVICES A 0ALO !LTO BASED NONPROFIT SER VICE AGENCY FOR TEENS IN DISTRESS ANNOUNCED IT HAS ACQUIRED /UTLET A PROGRAM SERVING GAY BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER YOUTH (Posted July 15, 9:46 a.m.)

Woodside man sentenced to life in wife’s murder ! 7OODSIDE MAN FOUND GUILTY OF MURDERING HIS WIFE AND ATTEMPTING TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE A SUICIDE WAS SENTENCED &RIDAY *ULY TO LIFE IN PRISON WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE 3AN -ATEO #OUNTY $ISTRICT !TTORNEY 3TEVE 7AGSTAFFE SAID (Posted July 13, 5:05 p.m.)

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Palo Alto UniďŹ ed School District Notice is hereby given that proposals will be received by the Palo Alto UniďŹ ed School District for Gunn High School Walkway Project, Contract no: GSW-13. Description of the work is as follows: Supply and installation of new accessible stairs and ramps, guard rails, hand rails, replacement/adjustment of existing utility vaults, and drain inlets. Grading & compaction, protection of existing ďŹ nished surfaces for a complete project. Bid documents contain full scope of work. Mandatory Job Walk: 10:00 a.m. on July 31, 2013 starting at the front of Gunn High School Administration OfďŹ ce, Palo Alto, CA 94306. Failure to addend or tardiness will render bid ineligible. Bid Submission: Proposals must be received at the District Facilities OfďŹ ce, Building “Dâ€?. Proposals are due on August 15, 2013 10:00 a.m. Contractor to ensure bid is received at the District Facilities OfďŹ ce. Bidding Documents: Plans and speciďŹ cations are available at ARC Reprographics located at 1100 Industrial Rd. Unit 13, San Carlos, CA 94070 for $100 | Phone: (650) 517-1895 This fee is refundable if the Contract Documents are returned in clean condition back to the District Facilities OfďŹ ce no later than ten (10) calendar days after the date of the bid opening. Bidders may also examine Bidding Documents at Facilities OfďŹ ce, Building “Dâ€?. PREVAILING WAGE LAWS: The successful Bidder must comply with all prevailing wage laws applicable to the Project, and related requirements contained in the Contract Documents. Palo Alto UniďŹ ed School District will maintain a Labor Compliance Program (LCP) for the duration of this project. In bidding this project, the contractor warrants he/she is aware and will follow the Public Works Chapter of the California Labor Code comprised of labor code sections 1720 – 1861. A copy of the Districts LCP is available for review at 25 Churchill Avenue, Building D, Palo Alto, CA 94306. 1. 2.

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A pre-job conference shall be conducted with the contractor or subcontractors to discuss federal and state labor law requirements applicable to the contract. Project contractors and subcontracts shall maintain and furnish to the District, at a designated time, a certiďŹ ed copy of each payroll with a statement of compliance signed under penalty of perjury. The District shall review and, if appropriate, audit payroll records to verify compliance with the Public Works Chapter of the Labor Code. The District shall withhold contract payments if payroll records are delinquent or inadequate. The District shall withhold contract payments as described in the LCP, including applicable penalties when the District and Labor Commissioner establish that underpayment of other violations has occurred.

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NOTICE OF EXTENDED NOP COMMENT PERIOD NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) will be prepared by the City of Palo Alto Department of Planning and Community Environment for the project listed below. The agency and public comment period for this notice has been extended from July 22, 2013 to August 1, 2013. A copy of the Notice of Preparation is available to be reviewed at the Planning and Community Environment Department, which is located on the ďŹ fth oor of City Hall at 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA. 94301. If you have comments or questions regarding the preparation of the EIR, please contact Jodie Gerhardt of the Planning and Community Environment Department via email at Jodie.gerhardt@ cityofpaloalto.org. 395 Page Mill Road and 3045 Park Blvd [11PLN-00374]: Request for a Planned Community zone change and Comprehensive Plan Amendment to allow redevelopment of the properties at 395 Page Mill Road (9.86 acres) and 3045 Park Boulevard (1.41 acres) in the City of Palo Alto. The project includes retention of the existing threestory ofďŹ ce building at 395 Page Mill Road and construction of two new four-story ofďŹ ce buildings totaling approximately 311,000 square feet. The project includes demolition of the existing one-story light industrial building at 3045 Park Boulevard and construction of a threestory Public Safety Building (about 44,500 square feet) for the City of Palo Alto, a multi-level parking structure, and future subdivision of this property. The proposed project requires amendments to the City’s Comprehensive Plan and Zoning designations (from Research, OfďŹ ce and Limited Manufacturing (ROLM) and General Manufacturing (GM) to a Planned Community (PC)) to accommodate the proposed mix of uses, development density, and maximum building heights. It is anticipated that the proposed project may have the following environmental effects: land use, aesthetics, air quality, greenhouse gas, geology and soils, hazards and hazardous materials, hydrology and water quality, noise and vibration, cultural resources, transportation, utilities and service systems, biological resources (e.g., trees), and public services. The project site is part of the California-Olive-Emerson (COE) Study Area — bounded by California, Olive, and Emerson Streets — where monitoring and remediation of a chlorinated volatile organic compound (VOC) groundwater plume is on-going with oversight by the Regional Water Quality Control Board (San Francisco Bay RWQCB Case#43S0053). AARON AKNIN, Interim Director of Planning and Community Environment In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, listening assistive devices are available in the Council Chambers and Council Conference Room. Sign language interpreters will be provided upon request with 72 hours advance notice.

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A weekly compendium of vital statistics

POLICE CALLS Palo Alto July 12-17

Violence related Arson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Assault w/ a deadly weapon. . . . . . . . . .1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Theft related Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Burglary attempt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Vehicle related Abandoned auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Driving w/ suspended license . . . . . . . . .5 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . .3 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . .1 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

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H. Leroy Hill

July 12-17

December 12, 1917 – June 28, 2013 Leroy is survived by his loving wife of 66 years, Billie, his two daughters, Megan Mason of Yountville and husband, Randy, and Shelley Morgan of Sacramento and husband, Mark, and four grandchildren, Olivia, Van, Whitney and Gillian. A native Californian, growing up on the peninsula and San Francisco, Lee graduated from Palo Alto High School, San Jose State College and UCLA. He spent his career years as a physical education teacher, coach and headed the Vocational Guidance program at Palo Alto UniďŹ ed School District. In conjunction with his teaching in Palo Alto, Lee was also a dedicated Dale Carnegie instructor for 35 years. In 1994 he and Billie moved from Palo Alto to Yountville, where

Alcohol or drug related Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Drunken driving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Possession of paraphernalia. . . . . . . . . .2 Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Miscellaneous Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . .1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . .2 Town ordinance violation . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

he spent 12 years working for St. Supery Winery as a tour guide. In addition to building all of his family’s homes – two adobes in Palo Alto and one pole house in Bear Valley, CA, he enjoyed gardening and snow skiing and he especially loved his family. A man who was always positive in life and showed great enthusiasm for all people with his big smile, he will be greatly missed by his family and friends. A family memorial service will be held later in July to honor and celebrate his life. PA I D

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Violence related Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Theft related Checks forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Vehicle related Abandoned auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Driving w/suspended license . . . . . . . . .1 Driving w/ out a license. . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . .2 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . .6 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Alcohol or drug related Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Drunken driving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Miscellaneous Disturbing the peace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Information case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Atherton July 12-17 Theft related Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Vehicle related Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Suspicious vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Vehicle code violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Miscellaneous Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Disturbing the peace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Juvenile problem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . .4 Town ordinance violation . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto University Avenue and High Street, 7/11, 9:18 a.m., assault with a deadly weapon. Katreena Avila booked for felony and outside warrant. Ventura Avenue, 7/13, 4:21 p.m., domestic violence. No comments. 225 Hamilton Ave, 7/14, 1:34 a.m., arson. Tiffany Robinsonhayes, booked for arson and outside warrants. California Avenue, 7/14, 8:55 p.m., domestic violence/battery. No comments.

Menlo Park 1100 block Sevier Ave., 7/12, 9:32 p.m., sexual assault. Incident occurred in 2010 and is under investigation.

NOTICE OF A SPECIAL PUBLIC MEETING of the Palo Alto Planning & Transportation Commission

Mona Ruth Miller June 25, 1925 – June 25, 2013 Mona Ruth Miller (Jablow) resident of Palo Alto since 1953. Born in Chelsea, Mass. in 1925. Raised in Cambridge, Mass., she graduated from Cambridge High and Latin School in 1943. Attended Simmons College, Northeastern University, Wright Junior College, Foothill and De Anza Community College, New Mexico University, Harrogate Adult School (Yorkshire England). She loved to take classes wherever she lived. She worked at Science Digest in Chicago, Ill. Before that she worked at the Radiation (radar) Lab at M.I.T. during the war, where she met her husband, Jack. They were married for almost 55 years before his death in 1999. She is predeceased by her parents, Sophie and Harry Jablow, sister Judith Garber, brother Dr. Norman Jablow, husband Jack Miller, and son Larry Miller. Mona was a community worker, at ďŹ rst involved in her children’s activities – PTA boards at Ross Road and Van Auken – as well as Boy Scout and Girl Scout activities. She took part in being inspector for the election board for many years. She worked at South Palo Alto Food Closet at its inception, and started branch of League of Women Voters in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She worked at “Connectâ€?, a local hot line in the turbulent 60’s in Palo Alto, and also became a “peer counselorâ€? for Miramonte Mental Health Care. She was a member of Avenidas Senior Center for many years. She also helped establish Avenidas Village, an organization that assists seniors who wish to ‘age in

Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . 2 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

place’ in their homes - which she was able to do - and she used that service until she was 86. She also helped at La Comida, which serves lunch to those over sixty. She was a member of Friends of the Palo Alto Library – working at book sales in earlier years. She enhanced her love of Palo Alto by being a member of Palo Alto Historical Association. She was an active member at Palo Alto Unitarian Church as a member of the board as well as teaching. She was also a member of Keddem Congregation. Mona and Jack lived in Boston, Chicago, Albuquerque, and left Palo Alto for two years to live in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England. Living there was a great adventure for them as they were able to travel in England and other parts of Europe. During her last year of life, Mona lived in Davis, CA. She passed away in Davis on her 88th birthday in peaceful hospice at the home of her son. Mona is survived by her son Alan Miller of Davis, CA; her daughter Sharane Miller of Baltimore, MD; granddaughter Jenelle Gaultney and great-grandchildren Taegan, Evan and Kyle of Grants, NM; also many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Services will be held Saturday, July 20th at 10:30am at the Palo Alto Unitarian Church, 505 East Charleston Road. In lieu of owers, donations may be made in her name to Avenidas Village of Palo Alto, Yolo Hospice of Davis, Friends of the Palo Alto Library, or Palo Alto Historical Association.

Please be advised the Planning and Transportation Commission (P&TC) shall conduct a Special public meeting at 5:00 PM, Wednesday, July 31, 2013 in the Council Chambers, Ground Floor, Civic Center, Palo Alto, California. Any interested persons may appear and be heard on these items. Staff reports for agendized items are available via the City’s main website at www,cityofpaloalto.org and also at the Planning Division Front Desk, 5th Floor, City Hall, after 2:00 PM on the Friday preceding the meeting date. Copies will be made available at the Development Center should City Hall be closed on the 9/80 Friday. Study Session (5:00-6:00) 1. Joint Study session of the Planning and Transportation Commission and Architectural Review Board to discuss sidewalk widths and how buildings address El Camino Real (and other major commercial streets) Public Hearing 2. 1875 Embarcadero Road [13PLN-00103] – Request by the City of Palo Alto Public Works Department on behalf of the City of Palo Alto Community Services Division for a public hearing for the review of the Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course ReconďŹ guration and Baylands Athletic Center Expansion. This is the public’s second opportunity to submit verbal Draft EIR comments at a PTC meeting. The comment period was extended through August 1, 2013. Project Zone District: PF(D). *Quasi Judicial 3.

395 Page Mill Road and 3045 Park Blvd. Project Scoping Session: This is a Second Community Scoping meeting for the EIR continued from July 10, 2013. Verbal comments from the public regarding the scope and content of the Draft EIR will be received and the Commission will provide input to staff. Project information will be provided and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) process for EIRs will be described for the public’s understanding. *Quasi Judicial

Questions. For any questions regarding the above items, please contact the Planning Department at (650) 329-2441. The ďŹ les relating to these items are available for inspection weekdays between the hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. This public meeting is televised live on Government Access Channel 26. ADA. The City of Palo Alto does not discriminate against individuals with disabilities. To request an accommodation for this meeting or an alternative format for any related printed materials, please contact the City’s ADA Coordinator at 650.329.2550 (voice) or by e-mailing ada@ cityofpaloalto.org. *** Aaron Aknin, Interim Director of Planning and Community Environment

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Alfred Paul Johnson Alfred Paul Johnson of Temecula, Calif., died on June 25. He was born in Palo Alto on March 24, 1929. He graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1947 and received a B.A. in history from Stanford University in 1950. He also studied psychology for a time at a Catholic seminary, but received a Master’s degree in history and teaching credentials from the University of San Francisco. Although he began his career as a high school teacher, he went on to work for the American Red Cross and for various agencies of the federal government: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America); Community Action Program; Paperwork Commission; and the Federal Railway Administration. During his time in Washington, D.C., he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from George Mason University in 1982. After taking early retirement from the federal government he enrolled at the Unity School of Christianity in Lee Summit, Miss., and became a Unity minister in 1992. He relocated to Southern California where he served Unity congregations in Hemet, Lancaster and Temecula. After his retirement, he remained active in the church and his community. He was stricken by a sudden illness in mid June, and was hospitalized for a short period. His situation deteriorated and he returned home under hospice care. He died later that day, on June 25, attended by his son Michael and friends from his church. Surviving him are his children: Alfred, Michael, Mark, Robert and Ann; ten grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and seven step-children. He is also survived by his wife, Dolores. A memorial service will be held on July 27 at 11 a.m. at the Unity Church at 140 N. Buena Vista Road in Hemet, California. His ashes will be spread at the Rose Garden at Unity Village in Lee Summit, Miss. on Sept. 19.

Joyce Vincenti Joyce Vincenti, age 95 and six-decade resident of Palo Alto and Los Altos Hills, died on July 13. Born Joyce Hancock Weaver on Feb. 21, 1918 in San Francisco, she grew up with her mother in Southern California, attending Hollywood High School before going to Occidental College, where she majored in art. For eight years she taught grade-schoolers in the town of Rosemead, Calif., east of Los Angeles. In June of 1947, she was returning from a teaching stint in Cuba, when her westbound train was stalled in Council Bluffs, Iowa by a flood. She was perched on the steps of her railcar, she met Walter Vincenti, who was en route from an engineering conference in Washington, D.C. Later that year they married, then set up house in the Bay Area, where they raised two children and lived together for 66 years. She was a cook and taught the craft

to her nieces. As a painter in oil and acrylics of portraits, landscapes, and abstract works, she had solo exhibits and was shown at Gallery House, the Los Altos Town Hall and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She traveled the world, was a theater- and concert-goer and volunteered at Stanford Hospital. She is survived by her husband, Walter Vincenti of Palo Alto, Calif.; her daughter, Margi Vincenti-Brown of Cornillon-Confoux, France; her son,

Marc Vincenti, of Palo Alto; grandchildren Genevieve Thueux and Juliette Harris of the United Kingdom; and two great-grandchildren.

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Editorial In city that loves to plan, Palo Alto’s creates cynicism Awash in development proposals, city’s aged planning vision takes a back-seat

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alo Alto’s official and legally mandated Comprehensive Plan bills itself as “the primary tool for guiding future development of the cityâ€? that “strives to build a coherent vision of the city’s future from the visions of a diverse population.â€? These days, however, the 15-year-old, 300-page document is treated almost like a quaint historic relic of how things were for the city back in the late 1990s. But as the Weekly’s cover story this week explains, it’s also a document that is still selectively used both to justify and criticize development proposals. Regardless of which “sideâ€? one may take on any given project, there are Comprehensive Plan provisions that are readily available to support that point of view. The idea that everyone can find their viewpoint reflected in the plan if they look long enough isn’t anything new. Even when the plan was fresh it presented policy goals that sounded good but that directly conflict when almost any specific project came along. And when an update to it is eventually approved sometime next year, that probably won’t change. That tension is both the beauty of the plan and its Achilles’ Heel. On the one hand, the vision is broad enough to try and capture community values and retain flexibility. On the other hand, everyone can find policies in it to justify their personal views. The idea is that a city’s Comprehensive Plan should guide zoning, which creates the precise contours for what is allowed to be developed on every parcel of land in the city. With that zoning, everyone, residents and developers alike, have clear ground rules and expectations and the only friction point is supposed to be the project’s design. Enter the infamous “planned communityâ€? zone. Seeking to encourage creativity by developers, the city long ago created an alternative path that bypassed the normal zoning. By using this “PCâ€? process, developers are free to propose anything they wish, including projects that far exceed the zoning limits, in exchange for providing “public benefitsâ€? either on-site, such as some extra parking, public art or affordable housing, or somewhere else, such as funding a child-care center or building a public-safety building. Or, in one recent case, simply paying cash to the city was deemed a public benefit. Developers have learned that while building under the existing zoning is simple and straightforward, the bigger financial pay-off comes from successfully negotiating a PC project, because it provides a lifetime of added value for what is generally a one-time cost for the offered public benefit. How do developers convince the City Council that their projects deserve to violate the zoning? Often by citing specific provisions of the Comprehensive Plan that promote whatever “benefitâ€? the developer is offering. With virtually every significant development proposal now coming to the city as a PC application, citizens have plenty of reasons to be cynical about the noble purposes outlined in the Comprehensive Plan and to question a process that in almost every instance results in an approved project that significantly exceeds the established zoning. We have been raising concerns about this process for many years, and one major breakthrough occurred last year when City Manager Jim Keene committed to having an independent economic analysis completed for every PC application that quantified the value to the developer and the value of the proposed public benefits. We are anxiously awaiting the first application of this new policy. Long-needed economic analysis, however, does not solve the larger issue of resolving the trade-offs between conflicting Comprehensive Plan policies when developments are being considered. In an interview for today’s cover story, Keene made the startling admission that staff reports on proposed PC projects are not intended to identify conflicts between Comprehensive Plan policies, but are meant to provide the findings needed for the council to adopt the staff’s recommendation. That helps explain why, in the case of the staff report on the recently approved Maybell senior housing project, only policies that supported the project were cited, something that helped to fuel neighborhood belief that the outcome was predetermined by staff and council. Keene acknowledges that the city can and should do a better job at presenting trade-offs in staff reports, and we look forward to seeing that needed change. An important test of how the community feels about all this may come from a referendum on the Maybell project, assuming sufficient signatures submitted this week are verified. It’s not the most egregious example of the problems with the PC process, but it has catalyzed a revolt among residents who believe it symbolizes a broken planning process. With some very large projects in the pipeline for city review, the staff and City Council would be well-advised to reconsider how they approach the public review process, or they will find that Maybell is not the last to go to the voters. Page 16ĂŠUĂŠ Ă•Â?ÞÊ£™]ĂŠĂ“ä£ĂŽĂŠUĂŠ*>Â?ÂœĂŠ Â?ĂŒÂœĂŠ7iiÂŽÂ?ÞÊUĂŠĂœĂœĂœ°*>Â?Âœ Â?ĂŒÂœ"˜Â?ˆ˜i°Vœ“

Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

In support of Maybell Editor, As a 35-year resident of Barron Park, I strongly support the Palo Alto Housing Corporation’s project to build 60 senior low-income apartments and 12 single-family homes at the Maybell-Clemo site. Many senior citizens are on waiting lists for affordable housing. Few places, if any, remain in Palo Alto to build such a project. A referendum drive is underway by neighbors opposing the project as approved by the Palo Alto City Council. Before signing, consider: Since their first presentation, the PAHC has listened to neighborhood concerns and made important modifications: ï Reduced the number of single-family homes from 15 to 12, seven along Maybell and five on Clemo. ï Moved driveways to behind the houses to eliminate cars exiting onto Maybell. ï Homes on Maybell will be two story to better fit into the existing neighborhood. ï Increased setbacks and added space between houses. ï Committed $200,000 for traffic improvements, including sidewalk safety for pedestrians, bicyclists and cars. If the referendum qualifies for an election, consequences will include: ï Significant costs for an election and added interest payments. ï Impact to the chances of qualifying for tax credits, necessary to fund a large portion of the construction costs. ï Existing zoning will allow for 34-47 single-family homes to be built, generating more traffic (per staff report to the Planning and Transportation Commission). I value diversity in our community. PAHC has a 30-year history providing affordable, well-maintained housing fitting in with the neighborhoods. Trina Lovercheck McGregor Way, Palo Alto

On library design Editor, I live in South Palo Alto and unfortunately have been able to observe the last three years of Mitchell Park Library/Community Center construction. I appreciate the fact finding and excellent article by the Weekly staff which included the architect’s rendering. There have been many discussions with friends and neighbors about the blue cargo container structure on the Middlefield side of the building. I do not understand the design element nor the color choice; neither seem to fit with the rest of the

building. Please change the color and add a design element to fit with the rest of the building. Jackie Wheeler Nelson Court, Palo Alto

Master, can I have a token of appreciation for my efforts with healthcare???? Brian Wax Louis Road, Palo Alto

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Editor, Let us be for real in the sense of this donation to Stanford. In reality, it is chump change from a billionaire. Do the math. This might be one year of interest earnings. It is not significant at all in the total wealth of Americans. It is mind boggling and stupifying that such an incredible sum amounts to ZED in typical earnings. It would have made a difference if this pittance of a donation was donated to the infrastructure of the Bay Area. So as it goes, no change — no support for the people of the community that supported his empire. Oh well, the math — the numbers and the people living living in poverty who lay bricks and other tangible efforts don’t account for anything.

Editor, PAHC has almost 50 years of service to the Palo Alto community and has provided housing to thousands of low- and moderateincome families in this community. I personally know two members on the board — both are solid citizens and the kind of people who help those in need. One member has volunteered for this organization for over 25 years. Here in Palo Alto, people like to debate and difference of opinions are tolerated. To call people liars and devolve into character assassination is shameful and not what our city should be about. For this issue and the many others swirling about town: Support your claims with facts and stop the name calling. Sharon Chin Stanford Avenue, Palo Alto

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What is your opinion on the George Zimmerman verdict? Photos and interviews by Rye Druzin. Asked at the Cambridge Avenue Post Office.

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Physician Old Palo Alto “I found the verdict to be discouraging, especially that there was such an asymmetry in the two parties.”

Pet sitter Seale Avenue, Palo Alto “I think it is a travesty. He should have been convicted of manslaughter at least.”

Student Escondido Village, Stanford “Slightly frustrating. I think that I would have felt bad for him if he had been convicted because of how the racial issues may have affected the case.”

Handbag designer Oxford Avenue, Palo Alto “My gut feeling is that it was racial profiling. I don’t think he needed to use his gun.”

Preschool teacher Donohoe Street, East Palo Alto “I think that the jury did what they were supposed to do, which was make a decision. But I’m horrified that he has not been punished in some way for murdering this young man.”

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Palo Alto’s lost vision If the city has a plan that nobody follows, what good is it? by Gennady Sheyner

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gard and shoved it in their faces. Long before the City Council’s June vote to rezone the property, it had loaned the Housing Corporation $5.8 million to purchase the Maybell site. The city’s planning staff had also decided to count the project’s 60 affordable units in the Housing Element chapter of the Comprehensive Plan, the city’s chief policy-making document for land use. By the time the project came to the council for final approval, some in the community felt the game was rigged. Art Liberman, president of the Barron Park Association, brought up the issue at the July 10 meeting of the Planning and Transportation Commission. Speaking for the association, Liberman said residents “feel they were steamrolled” during the process. Barron Park recently surveyed association members, who supported by a three-to-one margin holding a referendum on the council’s decision. Nearly two-thirds supported having the association spend $1,000 on two referendum petitions, one that would bring the council’s approval to a citywide vote and another that would ask voters to undo the council’s change to the Comprehensive Plan that accommodated the project. “A palpable undercurrent of anger exists toward the city staff and this commission and the council about your actions on this project,” Liberman said. “They feel you — staff and the commission — were pushed by the PAHC to approve this project because of timelines they had set up and by investments and commitments the City Council had made. They feel you and the PAHC ignored their views. They feel that you and city’s traffic department have been dismissive of their concerns about traffic and based your decisions on a traffic study that used outdated data, invalid methodology and had glaring deficiencies. They feel the only way for the city officials to listen to them is through a referendum.” The frustrations Liberman described aren’t unique to the Maybell project or, for that matter, to south Palo Alto, the area that has had more than its share of residential growth in the past decade. In downtown’s Professorville and Downtown North neighborhoods, residents have been urging the city for years to hit the brakes on new developments until the area’s exhaustively documented parking shortage is addressed. And around California Avenue, a place of many recent and upcoming changes,

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residents have called for the city to take a step back and consider cumulative impacts of these projects rather than merely considering the effects of each one (see sidebar). But from the perspective of frustrated residents, the broader problem is the way in which the Comprehensive Plan has been used (or, many would argue, selectively ignored) by the council and planning staff. While the vision document is often described as the city’s “land-use bible,” intended to guide development decisions, it has largely disappeared from major discussions over development. City planners and developers still cite Comprehensive Plan programs in advocating for new developments, but these references amount to little more than footnotes in the broader decision-making process, which is increasingly characterized by zoning exemptions and quid pro quo arrangements negotiated between the developer and the

council during late-night meetings. For land-use observers like Moss, that’s a problem. Minutes before the council formally approved the Maybell project on June 28, he made a last-minute argument for why the project is inconsistent with the city’s official vision. The new development, he argued, will “devastate the community” and “endanger the health and safety of the children going to and from the school.” “It’s incompatible with the residential zoning in the area, which is a violation of the Comprehensive Plan, and it’s a really bad idea,” Moss said.

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rustrations about the Comprehensive Plan aren’t limited to the Maybell project. Just about every major proposal that the council has faced in the last three years, includ-

ing John Arrillaga’s idea for an office complex and theater at 27 University Ave. and Jay Paul Co.’s application to build two large office buildings next to AOL’s Silicon Valley headquarters on Page Mill Road, has faced the same criticism: The council is paying too much attention to the developer’s offer and not enough to the city’s vision document. In theory, the Comprehensive Plan should inform land-use decisions rather than justify them after the fact. The 300-plus page document is described in its introduction as “the primary tool for guiding the future development of the city.” The introduction states that the plan “strives to build a coherent vision of the city’s future from the visions of a diverse population.” “It integrates the aspirations of the city residents, businesses, neighborhoods, and officials into a bold strategy for managing change,” the plan states. The document is supposed to

be used by the council and the planning commission to “evaluate land use changes and to make funding and budget decisions” and by staff to make recommendations. It is also used “by citizens and neighborhood groups to understand the city’s longrange plans and proposals for different geographical areas.” Given these stated functions, it’s easy to see why in the current environment, where just about every major application seeks to be an exception from the Comprehensive Plan and the zoning regulations it fosters, residents are becoming cynical. No project illustrates the fading influence of this community vision better than 27 University Ave., which also proposes a renovation of the downtown train station and public-transit hub. When the project reached the council in September 2012 for a preliminary review, it was described in an accompanying staff report as an “unprecedented oppor-

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he crowd arrived early June 11 and quickly filled every seat in the Council Chambers of Palo Alto City Hall, including the folding chairs set up in the overflow area. Many were armed with red “No Rezoning” buttons, petitions, videos of traffic congestion and reams of technical legal data. Hundreds had emailed the City Council prior to the meeting, urging rejection of the latest “planned community” development on its way to council approval. Dozens more chose to address the council directly, each blasting the proposed construction of an apartment complex for low-income seniors and 12 single-family homes on Maybell and Clemo avenues. The developer, the nonprofit Palo Alto Housing Corporation, rallied its own troops as well. Nearly half the crowd, including dozens of tenants from existing Housing Corporation developments, wore green “Yes on Maybell” stickers. The city has approved several affordable-housing proposals over the past few years, including a 50-unit housing complex for lowincome families at 801 Alma St., near Homer Avenue, and the 35unit Tree House at 488 Charleston Road. The latter was also developed by the Housing Corporation, which manages affordable-housing complexes throughout the city. While both projects encountered some criticism from nearby residents before winning approval in 2009, the opposition hadn’t come anywhere close to approaching the levels of exasperation and frustration that the Maybell proposal has provoked. Councilman Larry Klein, who had sat on the council for most of the 1980s before returning in 2005, said he had never “experienced such virulent opposition.” Bob Moss, a Palo Alto resident and regular critic of large developments, called the opposition the fiercest he’s seen in his four decades of watchdogging. Proponents of the Maybell project tend to dismiss opposition as the latest flashpoint in the perennial battle between builders and NIMBYs, and it’s true that opponents cite potential traffic problems and visual blight on the neighborhood as reason enough to halt the project. But this explanation is partial at best. It is the city’s disregard, in the eyes of some residents, for the values that the city itself has proclaimed it upholds, that disturbs residents the most. On top of that, they say, the city’s process for approving 567 Maybell Ave. has taken this disre-

The Lytton Gateway building begins to take shape as the fourth floor and tower are installed. The building, at the corner of Alma Street and Lytton Avenue, is an example of the rapid escalation in development around Palo Alto in the wake of the recession of 2008

tunity” to transform the area as part of an “extraordinary public-private partnership.” The staff report alludes to the Comprehensive Plan several times and at one point cites five different sections of the Transportation Element that would be consistent with the proposal (these include Goal T-1, “Less reliance on single-occupant vehicles,” and Goal T-2, “A convenient, efficient, public transit system that provides a viable alternative to driving”). The report also mentions the city’ 50-foot height limit for new developments and cites the Comprehensive Plan’s assertion that “only a few exceptions had been granted for architectural enhancements or seismic safety retrofits to non-complying buildings.” But it doesn’t dwell on the height issue. Instead, it notes that that there are “many existing buildings in the adjacent downtown area” that exceed 50 feet and lists 10 examples. Council members had met privately with developer Arrillaga in the months prior to the presentation, and most shared staff’s initial excitement about the ambitious proposal. Downtown residents, for their part, saw it as a slap in the face. In the Downtown North neighborhood, 185 people signed a petition circulated by resident Martin Sommer opposing the project. Sommer argued in the petition that the office buildings, the tallest of which was initially proposed at 163 feet tall, would destroy the neighborhood’s view of the Santa Cruz Mountains. “Stop this madness,” the petition read. “Retain the Palo Alto 50-foot height limit.” Sommer’s petition didn’t mention the Comprehensive Plan, though it could have. The vision document includes Program L-26, which contains five “design priorities” for the site. The final bullet point, which isn’t mentioned anywhere in the 27 University staff report, could hardly be clearer: “Protecting views of the foothills by guiding building heights and massing.” Nor does the staff report reference any of the Comprehensive Plan’s many policies about protecting historic resources. In this case, the new office buildings would displace the Hostess House, which has been at the site since 1932 and is listed in both the city’s Historic Inventory and the National Register of Historic Places. The Julia Morgan-designed building, which now houses the MacArthur Park restaurant, briefly served as the nation’s first municipally owned community center before Palo Alto moved this function to a larger theater donated by Lucie Stern. The September staff report gives a brief history of the Julia Morgan building, notes that it would have to be moved and suggests El Camino Park as one of several possible new homes. But it does not delve into the broader questions of whether the relocation should happen at all. It doesn’t consider whether moving the historic building would be consistent with the (continued on next page)

The long and winding road to an updated ‘land-use bible’ How the city’s effort to amend its Comprehensive Plan fell so far behind schedule by Gennady Sheyner

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hen Palo Alto officials decided in 2006 to revise the city’s land-use bible, the Comprehensive Plan, housing was all the rage. New housing complexes had been popping up like spring flowers, from 800 High Street in the north (a project that survived the city’s last referendum, in 2003) to the Altaire and Echelon complexes in the south. For the City Council and city planners, the big challenge was protecting commercial areas from the growing residential tide and making sure that residents in the new housing developments would have adequate nearby amenities. The problem was that the Comprehensive Plan on the books, which was intended to guide the city from at least 1998 to 2010, encouraged this trend. At the time of the Plan’s adoption, the city was coming off three decades of slow growth, and leaders were trying to encourage more housing. The document they approved 15 years ago cites a "limited supply" of residential zones and said that the city will "rezone commercial land to residential and strongly discourage the conversion of residential lands to commercial." Then the housing boom happened. The venerable Hyatt Rickeys hotel on El Camino Real and Charleston Road became Arbor Real, a dense, 181-townhouse complex. The area around East Meadow Circle also saw a housing surge, with more than 500 new units of housing going up on sites that once featured industrial uses. The time was ripe, the council decided, to update the city’s chief land-use policy. The scope of work was seen as fairly manageable. The council wasn’t looking for full-scale change. The goal was to add a new Sustainability Element, bringing together the city’s various environmental policies and goals, and to create two "area concept plans" — one for the area around East Meadow Circle, where much of the new housing was centered, and another for the neighborhood around California Avenue. The city approved an $850,000 contract for this work in April 2008 with the expectation that it would be completed in 2010 or, at the latest, 2011. Five years later, the update is still in progress. Last month, the price tag passed the $1 million mark when the council approved a $290,000 addition to its contract with the consultant, Design Community & Environment. With scant council direction or public

awareness, the scope of the revision has changed nearly as dramatically as the city’s economic and demographic conditions. The shifting scope and expanding timeline have caught even some council members by surprise. At the June 24 council meeting, just before the council authorized the additional expenditure, Councilwoman Karen Holman raised concerns about why the Comprehensive Plan update is taking so long. "We seem to have grown to where we’re now redoing the whole Comprehensive Plan," Holman said. Like her colleagues, Holman told the Planning and Transportation Commission at a May 20 discussion of the Comprehensive Plan that she appreciates all the work that the commission has been doing on the update. But she said she was surprised by the fact that the city appears to be "starting from scratch" with the amendment process. "I don’t know how we’ve had so much mission creep," Holman said. "I’m not sure how we got here." One reason for the delay has to do with the development trends Palo Alto has seen since 2006. The residential problem that the amendment was meant to solve has been overtaken by a rapid escalation in commercial growth. In the last few years, the council gave the green light to College Terrace Centre, an office development on El Camino Real and College Avenue, and to Lytton Gateway, a four-story building at the site of a former Shell station at the intersection of Alma Street and Lytton Avenue. This trend, which began in the aftermath of the 2008 economic downturn and which continues to gather steam today, makes the land-use dilemmas of 2006 seem as stale as many of the policies in the current Comprehensive Plan. Eduardo Martinez, who chairs the planning commission, acknowledged as much during the May 20 discussion. In a departure from the relatively narrow scope of work the council envisioned in 2006, the commission has spent the past three years revising every chapter (or "element" in planning parlance) of the 300-plus-page document and weighing each policy, program and goal. Some of the recent changes, he said, may already be due for revisions. "I noticed from 2010, when we first began to reorganize it, until now, the circumstances have changed and some of the policies

and programs in it need to be updated already," Martinez said. Initially, Martinez worked with past Chair Daniel Garber to review the Comprehensive Plan. Around 2010, he decided to get his colleagues involved and assigned different elements, or chapters, to each colleague or subcommittee of colleagues. In a recent interview, he called it "probably the best decision I ever made" as chair. Given all the recent changes to the city’s economy and demographics, the commission felt it would be a good time to revise all the policies in the Comprehensive Plan and consider which still apply. More recently, Martinez said, the planning commission decided to revise the governance and business elements in the Comprehensive Plan and to review every chapter to make the structure more clear and the document more "usable" and "actionable," with more direct links between the city’s goals and policies that support these goals. The commission also extended the timeline for the updated document from 2020 to 2025. The thoroughness should make the document more applicable, but it comes at a price — more delays. Martinez, who often cites the Comprehensive Plan in reviewing proposed developments, noted at the May 20 discussion that the commission began its revision of the Land Use Element "so long ago, that the members I worked with no longer work on the commission." Commissioner Arthur Keller said the same thing about the Transportation Element subcommittee, of which he is the sole remaining member. The commission had decided to split its work into two phases. In Phase One, members made some minor word adjustments and identified issues that were ripe for further revision. In Phase Two, which is almost complete, the commission went through each element with a fine-tooth comb, rewriting vision statements and adding and deleting policies in subcommittee meetings. At a March 13 commission meeting, Advanced Planning Manager Steven Turner described the commission’s decision to take a more proactive role in rewriting the plan. ‘We got through Phase One, but at the start of Phase Two there was a sense by the commission that perhaps we might be able to have a more interactive discussion between commission and staff about taking a look at goals, policies and programs in each element more specifically," Turner said. Over the past year, each subcommittee has been bringing its work to the full commission, which has been approving each element one at a time — a long process that the council will be(continued on page 23)

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Palo Alto’s lost vision If the city has a plan that nobody follows, what good is it? by Gennady Sheyner

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gard and shoved it in their faces. Long before the City Council’s June vote to rezone the property, it had loaned the Housing Corporation $5.8 million to purchase the Maybell site. The city’s planning staff had also decided to count the project’s 60 affordable units in the Housing Element chapter of the Comprehensive Plan, the city’s chief policy-making document for land use. By the time the project came to the council for final approval, some in the community felt the game was rigged. Art Liberman, president of the Barron Park Association, brought up the issue at the July 10 meeting of the Planning and Transportation Commission. Speaking for the association, Liberman said residents “feel they were steamrolled” during the process. Barron Park recently surveyed association members, who supported by a three-to-one margin holding a referendum on the council’s decision. Nearly two-thirds supported having the association spend $1,000 on two referendum petitions, one that would bring the council’s approval to a citywide vote and another that would ask voters to undo the council’s change to the Comprehensive Plan that accommodated the project. “A palpable undercurrent of anger exists toward the city staff and this commission and the council about your actions on this project,” Liberman said. “They feel you — staff and the commission — were pushed by the PAHC to approve this project because of timelines they had set up and by investments and commitments the City Council had made. They feel you and the PAHC ignored their views. They feel that you and city’s traffic department have been dismissive of their concerns about traffic and based your decisions on a traffic study that used outdated data, invalid methodology and had glaring deficiencies. They feel the only way for the city officials to listen to them is through a referendum.” The frustrations Liberman described aren’t unique to the Maybell project or, for that matter, to south Palo Alto, the area that has had more than its share of residential growth in the past decade. In downtown’s Professorville and Downtown North neighborhoods, residents have been urging the city for years to hit the brakes on new developments until the area’s exhaustively documented parking shortage is addressed. And around California Avenue, a place of many recent and upcoming changes,

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residents have called for the city to take a step back and consider cumulative impacts of these projects rather than merely considering the effects of each one (see sidebar). But from the perspective of frustrated residents, the broader problem is the way in which the Comprehensive Plan has been used (or, many would argue, selectively ignored) by the council and planning staff. While the vision document is often described as the city’s “land-use bible,” intended to guide development decisions, it has largely disappeared from major discussions over development. City planners and developers still cite Comprehensive Plan programs in advocating for new developments, but these references amount to little more than footnotes in the broader decision-making process, which is increasingly characterized by zoning exemptions and quid pro quo arrangements negotiated between the developer and the

council during late-night meetings. For land-use observers like Moss, that’s a problem. Minutes before the council formally approved the Maybell project on June 28, he made a last-minute argument for why the project is inconsistent with the city’s official vision. The new development, he argued, will “devastate the community” and “endanger the health and safety of the children going to and from the school.” “It’s incompatible with the residential zoning in the area, which is a violation of the Comprehensive Plan, and it’s a really bad idea,” Moss said.

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rustrations about the Comprehensive Plan aren’t limited to the Maybell project. Just about every major proposal that the council has faced in the last three years, includ-

ing John Arrillaga’s idea for an office complex and theater at 27 University Ave. and Jay Paul Co.’s application to build two large office buildings next to AOL’s Silicon Valley headquarters on Page Mill Road, has faced the same criticism: The council is paying too much attention to the developer’s offer and not enough to the city’s vision document. In theory, the Comprehensive Plan should inform land-use decisions rather than justify them after the fact. The 300-plus page document is described in its introduction as “the primary tool for guiding the future development of the city.” The introduction states that the plan “strives to build a coherent vision of the city’s future from the visions of a diverse population.” “It integrates the aspirations of the city residents, businesses, neighborhoods, and officials into a bold strategy for managing change,” the plan states. The document is supposed to

be used by the council and the planning commission to “evaluate land use changes and to make funding and budget decisions” and by staff to make recommendations. It is also used “by citizens and neighborhood groups to understand the city’s longrange plans and proposals for different geographical areas.” Given these stated functions, it’s easy to see why in the current environment, where just about every major application seeks to be an exception from the Comprehensive Plan and the zoning regulations it fosters, residents are becoming cynical. No project illustrates the fading influence of this community vision better than 27 University Ave., which also proposes a renovation of the downtown train station and public-transit hub. When the project reached the council in September 2012 for a preliminary review, it was described in an accompanying staff report as an “unprecedented oppor-

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he crowd arrived early June 11 and quickly filled every seat in the Council Chambers of Palo Alto City Hall, including the folding chairs set up in the overflow area. Many were armed with red “No Rezoning” buttons, petitions, videos of traffic congestion and reams of technical legal data. Hundreds had emailed the City Council prior to the meeting, urging rejection of the latest “planned community” development on its way to council approval. Dozens more chose to address the council directly, each blasting the proposed construction of an apartment complex for low-income seniors and 12 single-family homes on Maybell and Clemo avenues. The developer, the nonprofit Palo Alto Housing Corporation, rallied its own troops as well. Nearly half the crowd, including dozens of tenants from existing Housing Corporation developments, wore green “Yes on Maybell” stickers. The city has approved several affordable-housing proposals over the past few years, including a 50-unit housing complex for lowincome families at 801 Alma St., near Homer Avenue, and the 35unit Tree House at 488 Charleston Road. The latter was also developed by the Housing Corporation, which manages affordable-housing complexes throughout the city. While both projects encountered some criticism from nearby residents before winning approval in 2009, the opposition hadn’t come anywhere close to approaching the levels of exasperation and frustration that the Maybell proposal has provoked. Councilman Larry Klein, who had sat on the council for most of the 1980s before returning in 2005, said he had never “experienced such virulent opposition.” Bob Moss, a Palo Alto resident and regular critic of large developments, called the opposition the fiercest he’s seen in his four decades of watchdogging. Proponents of the Maybell project tend to dismiss opposition as the latest flashpoint in the perennial battle between builders and NIMBYs, and it’s true that opponents cite potential traffic problems and visual blight on the neighborhood as reason enough to halt the project. But this explanation is partial at best. It is the city’s disregard, in the eyes of some residents, for the values that the city itself has proclaimed it upholds, that disturbs residents the most. On top of that, they say, the city’s process for approving 567 Maybell Ave. has taken this disre-

The Lytton Gateway building begins to take shape as the fourth floor and tower are installed. The building, at the corner of Alma Street and Lytton Avenue, is an example of the rapid escalation in development around Palo Alto in the wake of the recession of 2008

tunity” to transform the area as part of an “extraordinary public-private partnership.” The staff report alludes to the Comprehensive Plan several times and at one point cites five different sections of the Transportation Element that would be consistent with the proposal (these include Goal T-1, “Less reliance on single-occupant vehicles,” and Goal T-2, “A convenient, efficient, public transit system that provides a viable alternative to driving”). The report also mentions the city’ 50-foot height limit for new developments and cites the Comprehensive Plan’s assertion that “only a few exceptions had been granted for architectural enhancements or seismic safety retrofits to non-complying buildings.” But it doesn’t dwell on the height issue. Instead, it notes that that there are “many existing buildings in the adjacent downtown area” that exceed 50 feet and lists 10 examples. Council members had met privately with developer Arrillaga in the months prior to the presentation, and most shared staff’s initial excitement about the ambitious proposal. Downtown residents, for their part, saw it as a slap in the face. In the Downtown North neighborhood, 185 people signed a petition circulated by resident Martin Sommer opposing the project. Sommer argued in the petition that the office buildings, the tallest of which was initially proposed at 163 feet tall, would destroy the neighborhood’s view of the Santa Cruz Mountains. “Stop this madness,” the petition read. “Retain the Palo Alto 50-foot height limit.” Sommer’s petition didn’t mention the Comprehensive Plan, though it could have. The vision document includes Program L-26, which contains five “design priorities” for the site. The final bullet point, which isn’t mentioned anywhere in the 27 University staff report, could hardly be clearer: “Protecting views of the foothills by guiding building heights and massing.” Nor does the staff report reference any of the Comprehensive Plan’s many policies about protecting historic resources. In this case, the new office buildings would displace the Hostess House, which has been at the site since 1932 and is listed in both the city’s Historic Inventory and the National Register of Historic Places. The Julia Morgan-designed building, which now houses the MacArthur Park restaurant, briefly served as the nation’s first municipally owned community center before Palo Alto moved this function to a larger theater donated by Lucie Stern. The September staff report gives a brief history of the Julia Morgan building, notes that it would have to be moved and suggests El Camino Park as one of several possible new homes. But it does not delve into the broader questions of whether the relocation should happen at all. It doesn’t consider whether moving the historic building would be consistent with the (continued on next page)

The long and winding road to an updated ‘land-use bible’ How the city’s effort to amend its Comprehensive Plan fell so far behind schedule by Gennady Sheyner

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hen Palo Alto officials decided in 2006 to revise the city’s land-use bible, the Comprehensive Plan, housing was all the rage. New housing complexes had been popping up like spring flowers, from 800 High Street in the north (a project that survived the city’s last referendum, in 2003) to the Altaire and Echelon complexes in the south. For the City Council and city planners, the big challenge was protecting commercial areas from the growing residential tide and making sure that residents in the new housing developments would have adequate nearby amenities. The problem was that the Comprehensive Plan on the books, which was intended to guide the city from at least 1998 to 2010, encouraged this trend. At the time of the Plan’s adoption, the city was coming off three decades of slow growth, and leaders were trying to encourage more housing. The document they approved 15 years ago cites a "limited supply" of residential zones and said that the city will "rezone commercial land to residential and strongly discourage the conversion of residential lands to commercial." Then the housing boom happened. The venerable Hyatt Rickeys hotel on El Camino Real and Charleston Road became Arbor Real, a dense, 181-townhouse complex. The area around East Meadow Circle also saw a housing surge, with more than 500 new units of housing going up on sites that once featured industrial uses. The time was ripe, the council decided, to update the city’s chief land-use policy. The scope of work was seen as fairly manageable. The council wasn’t looking for full-scale change. The goal was to add a new Sustainability Element, bringing together the city’s various environmental policies and goals, and to create two "area concept plans" — one for the area around East Meadow Circle, where much of the new housing was centered, and another for the neighborhood around California Avenue. The city approved an $850,000 contract for this work in April 2008 with the expectation that it would be completed in 2010 or, at the latest, 2011. Five years later, the update is still in progress. Last month, the price tag passed the $1 million mark when the council approved a $290,000 addition to its contract with the consultant, Design Community & Environment. With scant council direction or public

awareness, the scope of the revision has changed nearly as dramatically as the city’s economic and demographic conditions. The shifting scope and expanding timeline have caught even some council members by surprise. At the June 24 council meeting, just before the council authorized the additional expenditure, Councilwoman Karen Holman raised concerns about why the Comprehensive Plan update is taking so long. "We seem to have grown to where we’re now redoing the whole Comprehensive Plan," Holman said. Like her colleagues, Holman told the Planning and Transportation Commission at a May 20 discussion of the Comprehensive Plan that she appreciates all the work that the commission has been doing on the update. But she said she was surprised by the fact that the city appears to be "starting from scratch" with the amendment process. "I don’t know how we’ve had so much mission creep," Holman said. "I’m not sure how we got here." One reason for the delay has to do with the development trends Palo Alto has seen since 2006. The residential problem that the amendment was meant to solve has been overtaken by a rapid escalation in commercial growth. In the last few years, the council gave the green light to College Terrace Centre, an office development on El Camino Real and College Avenue, and to Lytton Gateway, a four-story building at the site of a former Shell station at the intersection of Alma Street and Lytton Avenue. This trend, which began in the aftermath of the 2008 economic downturn and which continues to gather steam today, makes the land-use dilemmas of 2006 seem as stale as many of the policies in the current Comprehensive Plan. Eduardo Martinez, who chairs the planning commission, acknowledged as much during the May 20 discussion. In a departure from the relatively narrow scope of work the council envisioned in 2006, the commission has spent the past three years revising every chapter (or "element" in planning parlance) of the 300-plus-page document and weighing each policy, program and goal. Some of the recent changes, he said, may already be due for revisions. "I noticed from 2010, when we first began to reorganize it, until now, the circumstances have changed and some of the policies

and programs in it need to be updated already," Martinez said. Initially, Martinez worked with past Chair Daniel Garber to review the Comprehensive Plan. Around 2010, he decided to get his colleagues involved and assigned different elements, or chapters, to each colleague or subcommittee of colleagues. In a recent interview, he called it "probably the best decision I ever made" as chair. Given all the recent changes to the city’s economy and demographics, the commission felt it would be a good time to revise all the policies in the Comprehensive Plan and consider which still apply. More recently, Martinez said, the planning commission decided to revise the governance and business elements in the Comprehensive Plan and to review every chapter to make the structure more clear and the document more "usable" and "actionable," with more direct links between the city’s goals and policies that support these goals. The commission also extended the timeline for the updated document from 2020 to 2025. The thoroughness should make the document more applicable, but it comes at a price — more delays. Martinez, who often cites the Comprehensive Plan in reviewing proposed developments, noted at the May 20 discussion that the commission began its revision of the Land Use Element "so long ago, that the members I worked with no longer work on the commission." Commissioner Arthur Keller said the same thing about the Transportation Element subcommittee, of which he is the sole remaining member. The commission had decided to split its work into two phases. In Phase One, members made some minor word adjustments and identified issues that were ripe for further revision. In Phase Two, which is almost complete, the commission went through each element with a fine-tooth comb, rewriting vision statements and adding and deleting policies in subcommittee meetings. At a March 13 commission meeting, Advanced Planning Manager Steven Turner described the commission’s decision to take a more proactive role in rewriting the plan. ‘We got through Phase One, but at the start of Phase Two there was a sense by the commission that perhaps we might be able to have a more interactive discussion between commission and staff about taking a look at goals, policies and programs in each element more specifically," Turner said. Over the past year, each subcommittee has been bringing its work to the full commission, which has been approving each element one at a time — a long process that the council will be(continued on page 23)

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staff recommendation to launch a “focused community input� process for the site. This process will include six to eight community meetings with the goal of coming up with a vision for the site acceptable to the community. “We are trying really hard to be supportive and responsive to council and community intentions,� Keene said. “We can’t design a perfect process every time. We have to actually modify processes along the way based upon feedback.�

Comprehensive Plan, even though the Plan addresses this issue directly with Policy L-56 — “To reinforce the scale and character of University Avenue/Downtown, promote the preservation of significant historic buildings� — or the much broader Goal L-1: “Conservation and Preservation of Palo Alto’s Historic Buildings, Sites and Districts.� Not surprisingly, the proposal to move Hostess House faced a major backlash from the city’s Historic Resources Board. At a Dec. 5 meeting, members unanimously panned the idea, with several arhen it comes to strategic guing that doing so would jeopplanning, the Jay Paul ardize its historic status. Board Co. proposal for 395 Page member Michael Makinen argued Mill came at an unfortunate time. that the Arrillaga proposal would For the past four years, city plandegrade the quality of life in Palo ners and consultants have been Alto. Board member David Bower working with residents and busisaid he didn’t understand how the ness owners around California project had gotten so far without the questions of historic compat- Palo Alto residents flood the City Council chambers June 10, some to protest and others to support a development that Avenue on a “concept plan,� a would bring 60 apartments for seniors and 12 market-rate homes to Maybell Avenue in the Barron Park neighborhood. detailed vision document for the ibility being considered. dynamic area that’s been called “There’s not much in Palo Alto that gets more significant than Planning staff had determined to weigh these conflicts and make “I think it would be a mistake to the city’s “second downtown.� having these older buildings in that the project would be consis- a judgment. But the conflict that infer that those (policies) not ex- Over a series of sometimes emotent with the Comprehensive Plan Scharff mentions won’t be found isting in reports now signify any tional meetings featuring Powtheir original place,� Bower said. Though the Comprehensive and cited in a June 10 report 19 in the staff report. When planners effort to sort of just steer a discus- erPoint presentations, breakout Plan has been peripheral to the different policies, programs and list 19 reasons for why the project sion toward a particular decision,� sessions and debates over desired amenities, the group put together council’s ongoing discussion of goals (the report notes that the list is consistent with the Comprehen- Keene told the Weekly. is “not exhaustive� sive Plan and zero reasons why it 27 University, at He acknowledged the city can a detailed analysis of each section and can be further isn’t, it’s easy to see why legions do a better job identifying the of the eclectic, mixed-use area least one former expanded). The of residents in Barron Park, Green tradeoffs that exist in the various between Cambridge and Portage official has assert- ‘A palpable list included Policy Acres, Downtown North and other development proposals and track- avenues, which includes the Fry’s ed it should be cenundercurrent of L-13, “Evaluate parts of the city feel like develop- ing the evolution of these proj- Electronics site. The document, tral in the debate. anger exists toward alternative types ers are in charge while the neigh- ects. He said he plans to address according to a March staff reFormer planning the city staff and of housing that in- borhoods are being ignored. Commissioner Suthis topic with Acting Planning port, is supposed to “guide future When asked about the omis- Director Aaron Aknin for future land use and development activity crease density and san Fineberg, who this commission and provide more di- sions in the recent staff reports, projects. within each area through the use during her term the council about verse housing op- City Manager James Keene emserved as the com“When we publish a final report, of land-use designations and supyour actions on this portunities�; Pro- phasized the limitations of these it’s really trying to represent find- porting Comprehensive policies mission’s unofficial project.’ gram T-36, “Make reports, which he said neither at- ings upon which that particular and programs.� torchbearer for the new and replace- tempt nor intend to represent all recommendation is being made,� At a September discussion of the C o m p r e h e n s i ve – Art Liberman, president, ment curbs vertical views and tensions inherent in a Keene said. “One of the things we Jay Paul project, resident Fred BaPlan, pointed out to Barron Park Association where desired by project. The city assumes, even should think about is how could lin urged the council to complete the council on Dec. neighborhood resi- without explicitly mentioning we efficiently track and report the the area’s vision document before 3 that the “Comprehensive Plan and zoning do not in dents�; and Policy L-76, “Require these policies, “that so much has whole record of changes on a proj- considering the new development, which at 311,000 square feet would any form support the scale, size trees and other landscaping within happened in public discussion and ect going through time.� public process that it’s really clear parking lots.� and uses of the proposed project. Keene also said the city recog- bring more commercial growth The list did not, however, in- what those (tensions) are,� he told nized that the process it was fol- into the city than the entire down“The council’s actions on the matter will demonstrate to the clude Policy L-5: “Maintain the the Weekly. The findings in the lowing for 27 University was not town has seen in a quarter century. citizens of Palo Alto whether our scale and character of the city. staff reports tend to support the effective. The new strategy in- Councilman Pat Burt also alluded Comprehensive Plan and zoning Avoid land uses that are over- particular staff recommendation volves more community involve- to the timing issue, calling the code matter,� said Fineberg, who whelming and unacceptable due rather than represent all views, he ment and strategic planning. On council’s deliberation “putting the June 3, the council approved a cart before the horse� because the concluded her tenure in 2012 after to their size and scale.� Also miss- said. the council chose not to appoint ing from the staff report was any mention of Goal T-5, “A transher to a second term. The Maybell debate offers an- portation system with minimal other example of the Compre- impacts on residential neighborhensive Plan’s fading influence hoods,� or Goal T-6, “A high level among policy makers. In a recent of safety for motorists, pedestriinterview, Mayor Greg Scharff ans and bicyclists on Palo Alto pointed to the Maybell project as streets.� These omissions were a perfect illustration of the Com- particularly striking given that the prehensive Plan’s limitations. The heart of neighborhood opposition document, he told the Weekly, en- focused on potential traffic probcourages the city to both support lems and the danger to children affordable housing and to protect riding their bikes to school, with residents offering visual and anecneighborhoods. “A lot of time the policies con- dotal evidence of currently unsafe flict with each other, so it’s not conditions in the bustling school prescriptive, and it’s not easy to corridor. Scharff is correct to point out say if something is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan. No that the Maybell project includes matter how much we update the tradeoffs: It’s consistent with some Comprehensive Plan, we still have policies and inconsistent with oththat conflict right there,� Scharff ers. Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on whether the goal said. But even so, Maybell also show- of promoting affordable housing cases the way in which the docu- should trump the goal of protectment has lost authority as a road- ing a residential neighborhood An orchard off of Clemo and Maybell avenues is the site for the proposed Maybell Housing Development. The City map, being used instead as a tool against additional density. The Council’s approval of the development caused a backlash from the public, many of whom are concerned about traffic for ex post facto rationalization. job of the council, Scharff said, is and road safety for bicycling students.

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The (or “General Plan� as documents project by developer Harold Hohbach went through nearly a decade of legal wrangling and plan revisions. of this sort are typically called) is legally required and “nice to that “temporarily delayed the con- have to say, ‘If a lot of office is ap- place. At a March commission have.� But its value is limited by cept plan,� according to staff. proved here, maybe more housing meeting, he recalled the housing the fact that many of its policies The Jay Paul application it- is appropriate for another portion boom of the mid-2000s and the conflict when evaluating a parself delayed the concept plan’s of the plan,� Aknin said. council’s 2006 decision to require ticular project. adoption. According to the June Finding the right balance be- “conditional-use permits� in cerScharff also defended “planned 24 staff report, the proposal has tween current and advance plan- tain areas before more housing community� (PC) zoning, which “shifted focus away from the con- ning is one of the biggest challeng- could be approved. by definition is cept plan until a more definite 395 es of being a city planner, Aknin Without this restricthe exception to Page Mill Road project was pre- said. But even if this balance is tion, Keller argued, ‘To some extent, the rule — allowpared and submitted to the city.� achieved, one thing is clear: Much more houses would ing development part of our job is to In a recent interview, Aknin like with the Maybell debate and have gone up, and that exceeds zonrespond to market characterized the city’s simulta- with Arrillaga’s plan for 27 Uni- “People would’ve ing regulations forces, but I think neous weighing of a concept plan versity, the community’s vision lost their shirts that, theoretically, part of our job is and the Jay Paul application as is being strongly influenced by a trying to sell that were guided by a difficult “balancing act.� In a single developer’s proposal, rather housing in a housthe Comp Plan. PC actually to reduce “perfect world,� Aknin said, the than vice versa. ing downturn.� projects have bethe response to city would have a concept plan “To some extent, come increasingly market forces.’ completed before an application part of our job is to controversial dur– Arthur Keller, is submitted. respond to market ing the hot building planning commissioner, At the same time, he said the two forces, but I think climate of recent City of Palo Alto s its broad name implies, the part of our job is processes can contribute to each years (for more on Comprehensive Plan means actually to reduce other. The city has just launched this trend, see “Baldifferent things to different the response to market forces,� ancing benefits� in the April 12 the environmental review for the Jay Paul proposal, and the traffic people. At the recent joint ses- Keller said. “Because after all, edition of the Weekly). analysis from this review can in- sion with the council, planning what is built today and tomorrow The PC approval process, he form the environmental review for Commissioner Carl King called is going to be here for 50 years. ... noted, gives the council the power the Comprehensive Plan, which is it “a document that’s probably Moderating this so that the market to demand things from an applireferenced more than the Bible forces don’t overwhelm is part of cant that would make the project set to take place next year. Furthermore, if the Jay Paul in Palo Alto� — one that people our job,� Keller said. better, things that the applicant project were to be approved, it “will point to for decades in sayCouncil members Burt, Karen otherwise wouldn’t have to procould inform the conversation ing that ‘The city must do such- Holman and Greg Schmid rou- vide. He pointed to the four-story about how land elsewhere in the and-such.’� tinely cite the document as an im- office building that developer For Commissioner Arthur portant foundation for weighing Charles “Chop� Keenan plans to area should be used. “If in the overall area plan we Keller, the Comprehensive Plan new policies, but they are the mi- build at 135 Hamilton Ave. and are looking for X amount of office and zoning laws serve to protect nority in this regard. Most council the redevelopment of the eightsquare footage and the Jay Paul neighborhood character against members appear content with approject does go through, you’d the exuberance of the market- proaching growth on a project-by(continued on page 23) Veronica Weber

concept plan is still in the works. Others disagreed. Councilman Larry Klein and then-Vice Mayor Greg Scharff both urged speeding along on the Jay Paul proposal. Klein encouraged his colleagues not to “dither� and rejected the idea that the city should wait for the concept plan to be completed before making a decision on the development. “It might be nice to have a concept plan in place, but that’s classic Palo Alto — ‘Let’s study this thing until it doesn’t have any life to it,’� Klein said. Scharff shared Klein’s enthusiasm for the proposal, which would also include a new police headquarters, calling it “a great idea, in concept� and predicting that the giant office complex would “add a lot of vibrancy on California Avenue.� This year, Scharff and Klein are both members of the council’s newly formed Infrastructure Committee, which is charged with coming up with a plan to finance needed infrastructure repairs, such as a new police headquarters. In April, the committee, which also includes Vice Mayor Nancy Shepherd and Councilman Marc Berman, discussed the Jay Paul proposal and tacitly approved an accelerated timeline for reviewing it. If all goes as planned, the project would go up for a council vote next year, in time for officials to decide whether to pursue a November infrastructure measure. Even though this would be one of the largest commercial developments in the city, the Comprehensive Plan didn’t come up once during the April discussion. (Scharff said recently that such a conversation was beyond the committee’s purview and would have been premature.) While 395 Page Mill gallops toward a vote, the area concept plan is languishing in planning purgatory. Numerous complications have arisen. These include a project to transform the California Avenue streetscape, which includes reducing the number of lanes from four to two on the commercial strip between El Camino Real and the Caltrain station. Merchants recently filed a lawsuit opposing the lane reduction, a move

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the 115-acre area, which includes a business district and the Fry’s Electronics property. Several ambitious developments are planned for the area, from Harold Hohbach’s recently approved “Park Plaza� at 195 Page Mill Road, which includes 82 apartments along with research-and-development space, to a 40-foot-tall office-and-retail building at 260 California Ave., where Illusions nightclub currently operates. With each new development

comes new traffic, even if the majority of tenants take nearby public transit, such as Caltrain or Valley Transportation Authority buses. But when city staff in 2010 was considering a controversial plan to reduce the number of lanes from four to two on California Avenue, between El Camino Real and the Caltrain station, these pending developments weren’t in the equation. The plan, which is part of a broader streetscape revamp of

the commercial strip, was adopted after a traffic analysis showed that reducing the number of lanes wouldn’t result in any significant traffic problems, a finding that was disputed by area merchants. For residents Pat Marriott and Dick Placone, vocal critics of Palo Alto’s land-use policies, the traffic analysis had a major flaw: It assumed, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that no significant new developments — or their traffic — would affect California Avenue. To investigate the issue, the pair recently made a Public Records Act request to obtain emails between the city’s planning staff and consultants working on the

California Avenue streetscape project. The documents, which Marriott provided to the Weekly, confirmed a hunch: Palo Alto’s transportation planners made a conscious decision not to include new developments in the streetscape analysis. An exchange between Brett Walinski of the consulting firm Hexagon and city Chief Transportation Official Jaime Rodriguez focused on this very topic. In December 2010, Walinski asked Rodriguez about potential growth in the California Avenue area and wrote that he was “concerned that if we mention (continued on next page)

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any potential growth, we will have to study it.� He also noted that the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), which governs environmental review of new developments, “requires a cumulative scenario. ... “If we are using this doc for CEQA purposes, and there is any opposition to this project, then we need to be careful about this.� Walinski proposed checking with an environmental consultant. In the absence of that, he wrote: “We may want to spend a bit more money and analyze a future growth.� Rodriguez replied that he had consulted with Chief Planning Official Julie Caporgno (who has since retired) and recommended analyzing only the “existing� and “project-only conditions.� The report, he wrote, “should include a discussion that no planned projects are pending or foreseeable in the near future that would change traffic conditions beyond the current volumes.� After Walinkski responded to double-check the fact that there are “no approved or pending projects,� Rodriguez wrote back: “Yes, let’s focus on the no planned or active projects instead.� Fittingly, Hexagon’s traffic study concluded that “there are no pending projects or planned projects in the foreseeable future. Therefore, traffic volumes on California Avenue between El Camino Real and Park

Boulevard will remain unchanged with the current land uses.� The exchange struck Marriott and Placone as puzzling. Even though some significant projects — including the offices at 260 California; a proposed four-story office building on the busy corner of El Camino Real and Page Mill, and Jay Paul Co.’s massive office proposal for 395 Page Mill — still hadn’t materialized in 2010, the city should have known that the area would see growth, and it should have included this growth in its traffic study, they figured. Hohbach’s proposal for 195 Page Mill, for example, was already crawling toward approval in 2010. The council had recently OK’d a smaller mixed-use development at 2650 Birch St. And plans were afoot to designate the California Avenue area the city’s sole “planned development area,� an acknowledgment that the neighborhood could accommodate more growth. So if the city knew about these changes, why did officials proceed with the lane-reduction analysis on the assumption that there would be no projects “pending or foreseeable in the near future that would change traffic conditions beyond the current volumes?� When Marriott and Placone brought this question to City Manager James Keene, he replied with a detailed explanation of the staff’s decision, which he said is fully compliant with state law. The city is only required to analyze “pending or foreseeable� projects, and the only

ones that would have fit this category in 2010 were 195 Page Mill, which was in litigation at the time, and the Birch Street project, which was so small that it wouldn’t generate any major traffic problems. This explanation didn’t entirely satisfy Marriott and Placone. Even if the city and Rodriguez operated within the law, he and the city knew that the California Avenue district would see a great deal of growth in the future, Marriott wrote in a memo to the Weekly. “Isn’t it his (Rodriguez’s) responsibility — as well as Keene’s and the Planning and Transportation Commission and the City Council’s — to do the right thing for residents and businesses?� she asked. “As chief transportation official, shouldn’t he ensure that traffic flows smoothly throughout the city?� In a recent interview, Rodriguez told the Weekly that staff had considered the projects Marriott and Placone cited and determined that they would not have a big impact on California Avenue, despite their proximity to the commercial strip. The portion of California Avenue where the lanes will be reduced to two dead-ends at the Caltrain station, and tenants of 195 Page Mill and 260 Birch are unlikely to use those blocks for commuting. But Rodriguez also acknowledged that the traffic model used for the analysis was not built to consider the major changes along and near California Avenue. That’s one of the things the city is looking to change as it completes its Comprehensive

Plan Amendment, Rodriguez said. In one of its final actions before the July break, the City Council approved a $290,000 addition to its work on the Comprehensive Plan to overhaul the existing traffic model and come up with one that does a better job looking at cumulative effects of various different projects. “The old model didn’t have a good analysis for the future. It didn’t add in every project that was approved,� Rodriguez said. The subject of cumulative traffic has become a hot topic well beyond California Avenue. Downtown residents have long been up in arms about the city’s approval of new office buildings, some of whose tenants have collectively eaten up all the parking spaces in the neighborhoods. And residents of the Barron Park and Green Acres neighborhoods have blasted the city’s recent traffic analysis for an approved development at 567 Maybell Ave., which includes 60 units for low-income seniors and 12 single-family homes. On June 17, just before the council approved the project, Councilman Greg Schmid made the point that current traffic measures aren’t sufficient. “There are cumulative impacts that are impacting the neighborhoods that are not being measured by ‘Let’s count the incremental change,’� Schmid said. “People look at incremental changes, none of which make a major impact, and then see traffic in their community go up on the order of 60 to 70 percent.�

The existing traffic model was created in 1995 and updated several times, most recently in 2008, when the Stanford University Medical Center was going through with its major expansion. The new model, which uses the methodology of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, will be updated with the latest and projected land-use developments. It will consider recent and future changes around California Avenue and the East Meadow Circle area, which are subject of the city’s “concept area plans.� Rodriguez said it will include possible future projects such as John Arrillaga’s proposed office-and-theater development at 27 University Ave. and Jay Paul Co.’s proposed complexes at 395 Page Mill. It will also include the potential housing sites listed in the Comp Plan’s Housing Element, which the city approved last month after years of delays. It will also consider big developments in neighboring jurisdictions, including Menlo Park, Mountain View and East Palo Alto, Rodriguez said. The new model will include 2012 as its base year and will also include traffic assumptions for 2025 and 2035, according to a June 24 staff report. “We’re looking at true future growth — the growth we’re expecting in our own community and in the surrounding region,� Rodriguez said. N Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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gin to replicate later this year. The commission’s thorough approach isn’t the only reason for the significant delays in upgrading the Comprehensive Plan. The city’s planning staff has lost key officials during the review process, Martinez said, including Julie Caporgno, who retired as chief planning official. The council’s decision to temporarily trim the budget for the amendment process after the 2008 economic crash also slowed things down somewhat. Another reason for the major delay, according to the June 24 report, is the city’s decision to revamp the model used to forecast traffic impacts of new developments. The new model will be based on the methodology used by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority and will take into account all the latest land-use activities and planning documents. It will also consider all the major developments in neighboring cities, including East Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Mountain View. It will have 2012 as its base year and will help the city forecast traffic assumptions for 2025 and 2035. The council also contributed to the delays by pursuing a number of smaller vision documents concurrently with the Comprehensive Plan amendment. In 2010, with high-speed rail stirring anxieties citywide, the council appointed a 17-member citizen committee to formulate a community vision for the Caltrain corridor. The resulting Rail Corridor Study, which took two years to complete, includes a long list of policies and recom-

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story Casa Olga convalescent home downtown, which will reopen as a hotel. Both projects are consistent with the zoning code, and each relies on parking exemptions in the code. Each is thus expected to exacerbate downtown’s already terrible parking shortage. Yet because these projects are consistent with their zoning designations, the council can’t require them to provide more parking, Scharff said. “If it (the Casa Olga project) was a PC, I would have discretion over it,� Scharff said. “I think the PC process has merit. It allows a lot of flexibility and community benefits. It allows you to control the process in a way that is positive.� Scharff also rejected the suggestion that the city is overlooking the Comprehensive Plan in discussing major projects such as 395 Page Mill Road and 27 University Ave. Neither project has been approved, he said. Each would have

The Eden Housing development at the corner of Homer Avenue and Alma Street is expected to provide affordable housing near Palo Alto’s transit-friendly downtown. The approval faced fierce resistance from neighbors.

to undergo review from the planning commission and the council, which would ostensibly involve discussion about compatibility with the Comprehensive Plan. The Infrastructure Committee intentionally avoided discussion of the

mendations, many intended to more strongly connect the city’s east and west areas (which are separated by the train tracks) and to promote safer rail intersections. The study, which was not a part of the program in 2006, will now be incorporated in the Comprehensive Plan. Another vision document that city planners have been working on is the Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Plan — a roadmap geared toward making Palo Alto one of the nation’s most bike-friendly cities. Like the rail vision, the bike master plan was approved last year and will now be a part of the new Comprehensive Plan package. Finally, there’s 27 University Ave., a critical area connecting Palo Alto and Stanford University, which includes Palo Alto’s busy downtown Caltrain station and public-transit hub. Developer John Arrillaga proposed a giant office complex and a theater, as well as improvements to the transit area. After huge public outcry over the proposal and the city’s process for handling it, however, the council voted 5-3 to seek out "focused community input" to develop a vision for that specific area. It will involve six to eight meetings. (Councilmembers Pat Burt, Holman and Greg Schmid dissented, favoring a more thorough planning process.) The 27 University effort may further delay the adoption of an updated Comprehensive Plan. The June 24 staff report notes that the project "would establish new land uses and zoning at the site and would affect land use throughout the downtown area." "The outcome of these studies and projects would appropriately inform the Comp Plan

Comprehensive Plan when it sped up the timeline for reviewing the Jay Paul proposal, he said. As for Arrillaga’s proposal, “It’s unfair to talk about the Comp Plan with 27 University Ave.,� he said. “No one has sat down and made

Amendment," the report states. Under the current projections, the council will begin reviewing the amended Comprehensive Plan in August, one element at a time, Mayor Greg Scharff told the Weekly. The goal is to adopt it in 2014, Scharff said. For council members and residents concerned about the recent development trend, in which large new proposals are evaluated on a case-by-case basis, this is a big deal. An updated Comprehensive Plan, Holman said, should provide guidance to council members and promote trust between the city and the greater community, effectively ensuring that all parties are on the same page when it comes to new development. "If we don’t follow our Comprehensive Plan or don’t have the update in place that would be relevant, then we have a freefor-all situation," Holman said. Schmid, an economist and the council’s most vehement proponent for broad, strategic thinking (which makes him the council’s most frequent dissenting vote), made a similar point in a recent interview. Schmid, who was elected to the council in 2007, said that in his term there have been "very few meetings that have addressed the Comp Plan issues themselves, as opposed to specific projects." "It is frustrating that we’re dealing with these things one (development) application at a time without a general context of what it means for the city and how it helps transform or change the city into something that is desirable," Schmid told the Weekly. N Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@paweekly.com.

findings to approve it. No one said whether it’s within the Comp Plan or it’s not.� But deferring this conversation carries its own costs, both financial and political. If 395 Page Mill is later found to be incompatible with the Comprehensive Plan, then the city is needlessly dragging its feet on the concept plan for California Avenue. If Arrillaga’s proposal is later found to be completely incompatible with the Comprehensive Plan, then the city will have spent as much as $250,000 on design work and an initial environmental review with little to show for it. Scharff acknowledged that some thought should be given to the Comprehensive Plan in the early stages, though he said he expects this to happen at the staff level. “I think it would be incumbent upon staff if they thought they’d be inconsistent with the Comp Plan, to say so,� Scharff said. And while the Comprehensive Plan hasn’t been a major feature of the Jay Paul discussion thus far, Scharff said he can think of several planning policies in the Comprehensive Plan that would be consistent with the proposal, including encouragement of development near transit areas. The Comprehensive Plan, Scharff said said, is a “vision document about where in the big picture you want the city to be.� But at the same time, things in Palo Alto have changed greatly over the past four or five years, Scharff said. These changes, he said, justify a complete overhaul of the Plan, which the planning commission decided to do after the council launched an “amendment process� in 2006. The revision is now entering its final phase after numerous detours (see sidebar). Scharff said he expects the commission to complete its review of the updated Comprehensive Plan later this summer, at which time the council will begin reviewing each section (called an “element�) one meeting at a time. Scharff said he is optimistic the process will be completed next year, an estimate that may seem ambitious given that the city’s last effort to adopt a Comprehensive Plan took nearly

30 meetings. The council’s adoption of the amended Comprehensive Plan promises to finally bring to the forefront the debate over the city’s values and strategies for growth. For Schmid, that can’t happen soon enough. In a recent interview, he echoed Scharff’s observation that the Comprehensive Plan, while an important expression of community values, sometimes has a hard time keeping up with changes on the ground. Since the city adopted the vision document in 1998, the city has undergone four “revolutions,� he said — the dotcom boom in the late 1990s, the dotcom bust in the early 2000s, the influx of residential developments in the mid-2000s and the economic crash in late 2008. His list doesn’t even include the last three years, which have seen the city rebound from the recession doldrums, spurring an influx of new office buildings. A document created in 1998 can’t possibly address all these changes, Schmid said. “I think applications are very powerful, and I think there is a tradition in Palo Alto of permitting PCs, — that is, variations from planned zoning because of special benefits,� Schmid said. “I think it’s an indication of the Comprehensive Plan having a hard time explaining or giving guidelines to a very dynamic community in a changing world.� Schmid agreed that many policies and programs in the document are now outdated. But even so, community values have not disappeared, and the vision statements at the beginning of each chapter should be taken extremely seriously, he said. Holman agreed. Even with the Comp Plan revision languishing and the city undergoing massive changes, the existing document has plenty of good direction to offer policy makers, she told the Weekly. “The Comprehensive Plan does talk about not having abrupt changes in scale (of buildings). It talks about having compatible uses next to each other. I don’t think we do a very good job of that,� Holman said in a recent interview. “I don’t think we follow that well at all, and I think (the Comp Plan) is wonderful guidance.� N Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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promised land by the Bay Documentary depicts the bright new life many European Jews found in Gold Rush San Francisco by Rebecca Wallace Above left: This photograph used in “American Jerusalem� shows the Haas family (descendants of Levi Strauss) on a family vacation to Bavaria in 1911. Above: A still from “The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich,� a documentary on the experimental scientist starring Klaus Maria Brandauer. Left: A still from “The Real Inglorious Basterds,� which looks at the true tale that the Quentin Tarantino film was based on.

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an Francisco in 1858 was truly a city on the edge. There was no transcontinental railroad yet, no easy way from East Coast to West, unless you thought that 40 days’ travel by land and sea, complete with dodging alligators in the Panama jungle, sounded like fun. So on the rare days when steamer ships arrived in San Francisco Bay with supplies, the city celebrated. In the fall of 1858, Steamer Day fell on Yom Kippur. In many cities, in many centuries, that would mean the Jews would just miss out. But San Francisco looked at the long-awaited Steamer Day and decided to postpone it. The Daily Alta California newspaper wrote, “The Jewish portion of the citizens of California constitutes a very important element of our inhabitants.� This sounds surprising, but it’s there in black and white: The broadsheet page is shown in the new documentary film “American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco.� On screen, Stanford University historian Richard White reacts. “That is one of the most astonishing things you can ever imagine about 19th-century California. I don’t know any place else in the United States where that would have taken place.� But San Francisco was special. The documentary, which will be shown in Palo Alto on Aug. 3 as part of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, shows that the City by the Bay

was the promised land for many 19th-century Jews. After fleeing racism and persecution in Europe, many came West and were treated like everyone else for the first time. The Gold Rush turned San Francisco from a village into a hot spot seemingly overnight. In the early 1850s, its population shot from 800 to 36,000 in four years, according to the film. A city that grew so swiftly didn’t get the chance to have a dominant faith or established social set. So the Jews blended in; they were newcomers like so many others. “That’s a unique set of circumstances that Jews benefit from,� said Marc Shaffer, who wrote and directed the film. “For the first time in their experiences, they become insiders and not outsiders. They’re defined as just another white group.� Interestingly, some of the limitations that had weighed on Jews in Europe now worked to their advantage. Many had been humble peddlers because of limitations on what professions they could hold. In the Gold Rush, few miners actually struck it rich hunting for gold flakes and gold dust. Others, several of them Jews, quickly realized that selling goods to the hopefuls heading for the diggings was a smarter way to earn a living. “They started out selling goods in their backpacks, and then they opened dry-goods stores, and then they opened chains of dry-goods

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stores,� Frances Dinkelspiel, a journalist and descendant of California Jewish pioneers, said in the film. The documentary profiles several of these pioneers who made it big. There’s Levi Strauss, of course, and Isaias Hellman, Dinkelspiel’s greatMarc Shaffer great grandfather. Hellman came to California from Bavaria and opened a dry-goods store before moving into banking. He later merged his bank with Wells Fargo. A major focus is Adolph Sutro, a German immigrant who made a name for himself in mining in a new way, by building the Sutro Tunnel in the Comstock Lode. He also helped fuel San Francisco’s growth out to the Pacific by becoming a major landowner on the western side of the city and developing public gardens and the Sutro Baths swimming complex there. He was the first Jewish mayor of a major American city, elected to lead San Francisco in 1894. As Jews prospered, they built grand synagogues of the kind that were rarely possible in Europe. They also continued to blend in. A portion of the film deals with the more secular Judaism often practiced by people like Sutro in San Francisco, where fewer Jews went to temple and some even had Christmas trees.

This different way of being Jewish was less religious and more cultural, but the community was still there. Even if San Francisco’s Jews didn’t always pray together, they shared traditional values such as charity, founding numerous aid societies. Many were active in raising money and rebuilding the city after the 1906 earthquake. Shaffer can relate to this different way of being Jewish. A longtime documentary filmmaker whose films have aired on PBS’ “Frontline� and other programs, he grew up secular in Berkeley. “We never went to temple,� he said. “But we were very highly identified as Jews. ... I have embraced this question of what it means to be Jewish. From a personal standpoint, making this movie was very appealing to me. It allowed me to explore those questions.� Executive producer Jackie Krentzman also found a personal connection to the film, which surprised her, as she’d grown up in an observant home in Cleveland. But researching the movie with Shaffer proved to be a revelation. “The story of how the San Francisco Jewish community redefined what it meant to be Jewish resonated for me,� she said in a press release. “I realized that being Jewish means much more than belonging to a synagogue, talking loudly and loving kugel. ... It means that many of the values I hold are not just personal values, but Jewish values. It means I can define for myself what being Jewish means.� The film is not all rosy. It’s a human story, flaws and all. In the 1800s, though many San

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right, funny, surprising, engaging, smart, touching: all apt adjectives for the world-premiere play opening TheatreWorks’ 44th season and heralding the New Works Festival coming in August. “The Loudest Man on Earth,� by Catherine Rush, features the same four actors who performed in the play’s reading and development in last year’s festival, where it received much acclaim. The current production pays off in spades on that promise, delivering an entertaining and challenging new work that is bound to generate thoughtful discussion and revelations. Rush is a hearing playwright, married to director-actor Adrian Blue, who is deaf. The play grew out of Rush’s desire to portray a deaf-hearing relationship, but even more to explore human communication and connection — how we succeed or not, regardless of our native language — or perhaps because or in spite of it. The play employs several languages: American Sign Language, Visual Vernacular and spoken English, along with a spattering of peripheral tongues, dialects and forms of communication. Most of it is spoken, but a fair amount is silent as we observe signing. Blue plays Jordan, a deaf theater director making a successful career in New York, who meets an eager, enthusiastic journalist named Haylee (Julie Fitzpatrick). Haylee knows a little ASL, and uses it to get past Jordan’s domineering and irascible temperament. She manages to communicate on a basic level with Jordan, but mostly she challenges him intellectually and personally in ways others might not. And their relationship begins to blossom. We see it unfold in a series of scenes meant to capture funny and/ or ironic moments in a deaf person’s experience of hearing culture, as well as the particular difficulties inherFrancisco Jews had escaped persecution elsewhere and now worked to aid the poor, they often didn’t aid the city’s Chinese residents, who also fell prey to racism when economic times were hard. Jews may not have joined in the anti-Chinese riots of 1877, but many were just as guilty of bigotry, the film states. Some Jews may have joined in the racism in hopes of keeping themselves from becoming the scapegoats, White said. “These are upsetting, disturbing things that we have to face,� author Fred Rosenbaum said in the film. Many of the prominent Jews, most of whom had come from Germanspeaking countries, also were less than welcoming to the later waves of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, the film states. These new immigrants were more religious, more traditionally dressed, less interested in blending in. Often, established American Jews were embarrassed by them, though some did provide financial assistance and social programs for their brethren. Shaffer sees this phenomenon as

THEATER REVIEW ent in the budding romance. Some moments generate laughter; others, groans at the obvious stupidity or ignorance of the hearing world. Some 20 or so other characters are played by just two actors, Cassidy Brown and Mia Tagano, who change costumes, wigs, accents, personalities and attitudes in a New York minute. It is really through their gaffes and painful remarks that we see our cultural blindness to the world of the differently abled. The heart of the play is the romance between Haylee and Jordan. On the surface, it’s about their trials as a deaf-hearing couple; on deeper levels, it’s about how they connect, or fail to, and their encounter as human beings. In that sense, there isn’t much surprise here. If the element of deafness were removed, the love story might feel mundane. Jordan’s deafness creates extra hurdles, but so does his personality. How much of that personality has been shaped by his experience as a deaf person, from childhood to present, isn’t fully explored; it’s merely hinted at in a scene with Jordan’s parents and a few references. And how common is that experience? Having been given a glimpse, I wanted to know more. The play also has an effect on hearing audience members that may or may not have been intended. Haylee notes that even the best lip-readers catch only about 40 percent of what is said, making it a very imperfect form of communication. As Jordan signed nearly all of his performance, I began to feel like a lip-reader, struggling at times to catch his meaning. Sometimes it’s crystal clear; sometimes it’s incomprehensible; sometimes some of the audience members laugh and the rest are in the dark. While frustrating, this is also consciousness-raising: a something that happens across many ethnic groups, the way people can come into a new country “and shut the door behind them.� “That came as a shock, but also as a storytelling gift,� he said. After all, he’s a documentarian, interested in telling the truth and seeing all sides of a tale. In that vein, Shaffer even found something positive in a 19th-century

powerful immersion experience, reminding us how much we take verbal communication for granted. In the end, the play gently prods us into awareness — the limits of words, in any language; the daunting task of communication; the navigation of the stormy waters of love; and more — sure to engender terrific post-show discussions. Much of the play’s success lies on the shoulders of its four actors, all of whom are excellent, all compelling and capable. It’s fun to see Brown and Tagano switch characters with every scene, but they also bring depth and authenticity to each one. Fitzpatrick strikes just the right note, balanced between intellect and emotion, hope and resignation. Blue is superb as Jordan, conveying nuance and subtle effects with such ease. His solo flights of signing lead us softly into his world with warmth and sympathy, like a parent leading a child. Set design by Jason Simms is a brilliant model of efficiency, with moving panels and simple set pieces to quickly effect scene changes. Paul Toben’s beautiful light design complements set and mood, and Tanya Finkelstein’s costuming, especially for Brown and Tagano, says volumes for each character. See the play here, before it moves to other venues — then watch for it later on the Tonys.

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INFORMATION Now in its 33rd year, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival brings screenings to Palo Alto from Aug. 3 through Aug. 8, showing feature films, documentaries and shorts at the Palo Alto Square theater at 3000 El Camino Real. “American Jerusalem� will be shown at 4:20 p.m. on Aug. 3, together with “Shanghai Strangers,� a short about Jewish life during wartime Shanghai. Other films include “The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich,� a documentary on the experimental scientist, shown at 8:45 p.m.

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(Aquarius) What would popular music sound like without the backup singers? The answer is, of course, unthinkable, as Morgan Neville’s documentary “20 Feet from Stardomâ€? reminds us. Neville does a good job of highlighting songs that are especially characterized by backup singers, like Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side,â€? and introducing us to some of the “unsungâ€? talent that made those hits possible. Among the vocalists highlighted in the film are Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, the Waters Family, Claudia Lennear, Mabel John, Stevvi Alexander, Jo Lawry, TĂĄta Vega, Lynn Mabry and Judith Hill. That nearly all of the talent is female gives the film a charge of feminist electricity, but the doc also serves as a parable of pursuing a big-time professional career in the arts. For every household name (and six testify in the film: Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Stevie Wonder, Bette Midler and Sheryl Crow), there’s a breathtaking singer who never quite got the breaks or, perhaps, lacked the ambitious drive to pursue downstage stardom. If this is a film about the art and struggle of the backup singer, the premise is undercut by the inclusion of Love, who struggled mightily to get out from under the iron fist of producer Phil Spector but nevertheless qualifies as a bona fide star (and an inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) who has mostly sung lead, headlines shows and appears annually for a featured slot on “The Late Show with David Letterman.â€? Still, who wouldn’t want to spend time with Love? She sings, reflects and admits that she nearly gave up for good, cleaning houses until she heard herself on the radio while doing so and resolved to re-

turn to her calling. Though Love throws off the balance of the movie, its heart is with such performers as Fischer and Clayton who have sung mostly backup and who have been unable to sustain or launch solo careers. Neville celebrates their brushes with stardom — like Clayton’s famously blistering solo on the Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter� and Fischer’s only solo album, “So Intense� — but also allows the singers to ponder the limits of their commercial success. Like any music documentary worth its salt, this one loads up on great performance footage, some of it from other music films: Lennear at “The Concert for Bangladesh,� Mabry backing the Talking Heads in “Stop Making Sense,� and Hill in “This Is It,� working with Michael Jackson just before his death. Revisiting these musical moments with attention to the backup singers proves ear-opening, as do the sometimes thoughtful, sometimes poignant interviews. Most of these women have come a long way, baby. Former Ikette Lennear chuckles about having posed for “Playboy� — now she’s a Spanish teacher. Something tells me she may have a sabbatical in her future: If a “20 Feet from Stardom� tour isn’t in the works, someone’s sleeping on the job. Rated PG-13 for language and sexual material. One hour, 31 minutes. — Peter Canavese

Girl Most Likely -(Palo Alto Square) Take the great Kristen Wiig out of the indie comedy “Girl Most Likely,� and it would be unbearable. But she’s here, and in every scene. The question is whether fans will want to watch her struggle to keep a film afloat

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ments of emotional clarity and, unlike Imogene’s dad, she’s around. Screenwriter Michelle Morgan isn’t quite as charitable to Ocean City, New Jersey, which pretty much remains in estimation a dump to abandon for Manhattan (its hateful social graspers aside). The film’s undernourished romance never quite finds its groove (Lee’s scripted to be exactly the generic nice, uncomplicated guy Imogene needs just at this moment). Berman and Pulcini’s imprint is felt mostly in some surprisingly effective brother-sister poignancy, though it would be more effective if they named the brother’s autism. But the

humor is scattershot, working to the limited extent that it does due to a strong cast and quirky cameos. As a fan of Wiig — who remains likeably awkward here — I’m glad I saw “Girl Most Likely,� the kind of movie you root for to get its act together. But I’m equally glad I didn’t have to pay to see it. You’re liable to enjoy it more if you wait to watch it on your couch. Rated PG-13 for sexual content and language. One hour, 43 minutes. — Peter Canavese

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Despicable Me 2 (PG) (( Century 16: 9:15 & 11:45 a.m. & 2:30, 5:15, 7:55, 10:35 p.m. In 3D 10:40 a.m. & 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:35 p.m. Century 20: 10:20 a.m. & 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:10, 10:35 p.m. In 3D 11:35 a.m. & 2:10, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 p.m. The Devil to Pay! (1930) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri 6:05 & 9 p.m. The East (PG-13) ((( Palo Alto Square: 1:30, 4:15, 7:15 p.m. Fri-Sat also at 10 p.m. Girl Most Likely (PG-13) (( Palo Alto Square: 2, 4:30, 7:25 p.m. Fri-Sat also at 9:55 p.m. Grown Ups 2 (PG-13) Century 16: 9 & 10:15 a.m. & 11:30 a.m. & 2, 3:40, 4:40, 7:25, 9:10, 10:20 p.m. Century 20: 10:35 a.m. & noon & 2:30, 3:55, 5, 7:35, 9:15, 10:15 p.m. The Heat (R) (( Century 16: 11:10 a.m. & 1:55, 4:45, 7:45, 10:40 p.m. Century 20: 11 a.m. & 1:45, 4:25, 7:10, 10 p.m. The Lone Ranger (PG-13) ((( Century 16: 9:05 a.m. & 12:25, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 p.m. Century 20: 12:15, 3:30, 6:50, 10:25 p.m. Man of Steel (PG-13) ((( Century 16: 11 a.m. & 5:30 p.m. Century 20: 7:40 p.m. In 3D 1:25 p.m. Monsters University (G) (((1/2 Century 16: 9:25 a.m. & 2:25, 7:30 p.m. In 3D 11:55 a.m. & 5 & 10 p.m. Century 20: 10:30 a.m. & 1:10, 6:25 p.m. In 3D 2:25, 8 p.m. Much Ado About Nothing (PG-13) (((1/2 Aquarius Theatre: Fri-Sun 12:30 & 6 p.m. National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978) (R) Century 20: Sun 2 p.m.

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Pacific Rim (PG-13) ((( Century 16: 2:15 & 8:45 p.m. In 3D 9:20 a.m. & 12:30, 3:45, 7, 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 10:35 a.m. & 1:35, 4:35, 7:45, 10:45 p.m. In 3D 12:15, 3:15, 6:15, 9:25 p.m.

Fri & Sat 7/19 – 7/25 Girl Most Likely – 2:00, 4:30, 7:25, 9:55 The East – 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10:00

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NO TRACK BERTH . . . Menlo School senior Maddy Price saw her hopes of making the Canadian Junior Team disappear as she failed to qualify for the finals in the 200 meters on Sunday at the Canadian Junior Track and Field Championships in SainteTherese, Quebec. Price needed to finish first or second and run 24.20 to make the Canadian team for the Junior Pan American Championships in late August. Instead, she ran 25.20 for 12th place during qualifying. Price’s best shot at making the team was in the 400, where she finished third on Saturday — missing second by .02 of a second after running 55.57.

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Reigning Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli of France says she’s finally learning to enjoy living in the moment at tournaments and being happy with herself, instead of feeling depressed and frustrated by letting special opportunities slip by like in previous years.

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Bartoli learning to enjoy herself Wimbledon champion is finally living in the moment after years of not making the most of the occasion by Alexandra Willis t was around 8:30 p.m. Marion Bartoli had been escorted to press conference, interview, interview, round table, round table, round table, back-to-back-to-back, with not even a moment’s respite to eat the smoked salmon and brown bread sandwich sitting somewhat forlornly on the desk in press conference room 2. She was still wearing grey tracksuit bottoms and a workout-type top, no glitz and glamour here. You become very much in demand when you are the Wimbledon champion. By that stage, you might well expect her to have become a little weary of answering the same questions over and over. Or at least not respond to them quite so well. But,

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OF LOCAL NOTE . . . Sacred Heart Prep senior Bradley Knox of Menlo Park and Stanford-bound Maverick McNealy of Portola Valley will begin play Monday in the annual U.S. Junior Amateur Championships at Martis Camp in Truckee. The golf championship runs through July 27 . . . The Menlo College community was rocked last week by news of the untimely passing of senior women’s basketball player Sasha Brown, who died on July 10. The cause has yet to be determined. Brown, who transferred to Menlo College from Sierra College as a junior in 2012, had recently completed a highly successful junior campaign for the Oaks. “Sasha had a tremendous passion for basketball and played with great energy and enthusiasm,� said Menlo head coach Shannon Osborne. “She always gave her best effort and was a focused defender and rebounder. Sasha was really working hard on her game this summer and we were excited for her to have a great senior year, and yet, as much as we will miss her on the floor, we will miss her even more off it.�. . . Palo Alto High grad De’Antay Williams caught a four-yard touchdown pass to help the North defeat the South, 17-6, in the annual Charlie Wedemeyer Prep All-Stars Football Game on Wednesday at San Jose City College.

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OAKS PERFECT . . . The Palo Alto Oaks will take a 14-0 record into this weekend’s Western Baseball Association doubleheader at Baylands Athletic Center before heading to Sacramento the following week for the West Region tournament. The Oaks will face a field that includes representatives from the Sacramento Rural League, Southern California and the Western Baseball Association. Tournament play begins July 26. Palo Alto kept its perfect season alive with a doublheader sweep of Fontanetti’s ‘B’ team on Sunday at Baylands. In Game 1, the Oaks used the mercy rule and won 11-1 in seven innings as Brian Fleischli went 4-for-4 with a triple, double, and two singles. The second game was much closer with the Oaks prevailing, 6-4. Starter CJ Hillyer tossed the first four and gave up one run while striking out 10.

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as we’ve come to discover, Marion Bartoli is unique. And she saved one of her best lines of the day for last. “Did I dream about having a model contract? No, I’m sorry,� she joked. “Did I dream about winning Wimbledon, absolutely yes.� Bartoli, the biggest name in next week’s Bank of the West Classic at Stanford’s Taube Family Tennis Center (July 22-28), was responding to the suggestion that she has had to work harder in life because she did not look like Maria Sharapova. And she quashed it as firmly as she delivered that final ace on match point, reminding those of us in the room that no, she is not blonde. “That’s a fact,� she laughed. (continued on next page)

Stanford products lead U.S. water polo teams by Keith Peters he U.S. men’s and women’s national teams, each loaded with Stanford products, made their final preparations for the upcoming water polo competition at the FINA World Championships this weekend by compiling 2-1 records in their respective tournaments over the weekend. The men earned victories over Canada and China before falling to Serbia in the Four Nations Tournament in Belgrade, Serbia. The USA women, meanwhile, finished second

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at the Dutch Trophy tournament on Sunday in Gouda, Netherlands. The Americans wrapped up three days of play with an 11-7 victory over Greece. Stanford’s Annika Dries scored three goals, as did teammate Kelly Rulon, while goalie Betsey Armstrong stopped six shots. Stanford grad Lolo Silver and current Cardinal Kiley Neushul each added two goals. On Day 2 of the tournament, Team USA dropped a 14-13 decision to the Netherlands. Dries scored three goals in the setback. Silver and Neushul

each scored twice while Stanford’s Maggie Steffens added one goal. The U.S. opened the tournament on Friday with a 15-8 win over Canada. Steffens and recent Stanford grad Melissa Seidemann tossed in three goals apiece with Dries adding one. The Americans were 5-of-11 on power-play goals. Next up for Team USA will be a rematch with Greece to open the FINA World Championships on Sunday in Barcelona, Spain. Also playing for the U.S. women is Sacred Heart Prep and UCLA grad

KK Clark from Atherton. The USA men will open play in the World Championships on Monday against Croatia. The squad, with five current or former Stanford players, defeated Canada (11-9) and China (14-8) before losing to host Serbia (14-12) in the Four Nations Tournament. Stanford grads Janson Wigo and Tony Azevedo along with current Cardinal Alex Bowen had solo goals against Canada. Azevedo scored (continued on page 33)

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Burdette, Gibbs should feel right at home Stanford All-Americans will be in the main draw along with Wimbledon champ Bartoli, but Sharapova sidelined by Rick Eymer

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tified Monday that Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium has also withdrawn. She was one of four Bank of the West entrants to reach Wimbledon’s semifinals. With those withdrawals, former world No. 4 Daniela Hantuchova and up-and-coming American Christina McHale have received berths into the main draw. In addition, the Bank of the West Classic announced Monday that it has granted a wild card into the main draw to Burdette. Burdette, who turned professional shortly after last year’s Bank of the West Classic, reached the third round of last year’s US Open and has risen quickly up the world rankings. She is currently No. 78 and will join former Cardinal teammate Nicole Gibbs next week. The Bank of the West Classic still boasts a strong player field including reigning Wimbledon champion Bartoli, current world No. 4 Agnieszka Radwanska, 2011 US Open champion Samantha Stosur and 2010

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aria Sharapova is out, but former Stanford All-American Mallory Burdette is in as the lineup for the 2013 Bank of the West Classic continues to ebb and flow as the annual tournament stop at Stanford’s Taube Family Tennis Center approaches next week. Sharapova, ranked No. 2 in the world and the tournament’s biggest name along with Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli, has been forced to withdraw due to a left hip injury suffered during Wimbledon. “We are disappointed for our fans that Maria won’t be able to attend this year’s Bank of the West Classic but unfortunately injuries are a part of the sport and we understand that a player’s health must always come first,� said Bank of the West Classic Tournament Director Kim Hall. “We wish her a speedy recovery and hope she is able to return to the court soon.� The tournament was also was no-

Former Stanford All-American Mallory Burdette moved from the qualifying tournament to the main draw for the Bank of the West Classic after injuries knocked Maria Sharapova and Kirsten Flipkens from the event. French Open champion Francesca Schiavone. The Bank of the West Classic is the longest-running women-only professional tennis tournament in the world and is the first stop of the Emirates Airline US Open Series. Owned and operated by IMG, the

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Stanford’s Nicole Gibbs, who turned pro following her junior year, won her first pro tournament last weekend in Yakima, Wash., and is playing in the $50,000 Oregon Challenger this week before heading to Stanford.

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On the contrary, Bartoli freely admits that she has not always led a charmed life. “It was not really my tennis results, it was more my private life,� she explained when asked about why she had described herself as hitting ‘rock bottom’ earlier this year. “And it was really hard to take, I couldn’t focus when I was on the court, I couldn’t even enjoy being myself. I was almost a bit depressed. But somehow the wheel turned and I had my moment.� And then she paused.

“Maybe it was meant to be like that,� she said. “Maybe you have to go through those tough times to bounce back and to have this ultimate high.� Losing a Grand Slam final is not an easy experience to forget. Just ask Great Britain’s Andy Murray, and for the 2013 Wimbledon women’s finale, Sabine Lisicki. But it was not so much the way she played, or didn’t play, in her unsuccessful Championships attempt in 2007 which stayed with Bartoli. It was not making the most of the occasion. “It was not really painful to lose because Venus (Williams) was just way too good for me. I had absolutely no chance during that final,�

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Bartoli remembered. “What was the most painful for me was not enjoying the moment, I was so overwhelmed at the whole situation. “So I really wanted this time to enjoy every second of it, no matter what was the result, enjoy, embrace the situation, being out there, playing the final of Wimbledon, on Saturday at 2 o’clock. When I saw the packed stadium, beautiful sky, I thought gosh this is going to be a great moment. And it was.� Practicing with her father on icy, hole-ridden tennis courts late at night after school in France, the limited space on the court the reason for her quirky and quizzical style, driving hundreds of kilometers to tour-

WTA Premier event features a 28player singles draw and a 16-team doubles draw with total prize money of $795,000. Television coverage begins on July 25 on the Tennis Channel from 2-6 p.m., and 7-9 p.m. ESPN2 will televise singles quarterfinals live on Friday, July 26 from 8-10 p.m. Saturday’s singles semifinals (7-9 p.m.) will be shown live by ESPN2, as will the singles finale on Sunday from 2-4 p.m. Tickets can be purchased by calling the box office at 866-WTA-TIXS (866-982-8497) or by logging on to www.BankoftheWestClassic.com. * * * Nicole Gibbs has picked up right where she left off when she helped the Stanford women’s tennis team win the NCAA championship in May. Gibbs defeated Croatia’s Ivana Lisjak, 6-1, 6-4, in the championship match of the Yakima Regional Hospital Challenger on Sunday in Washington state. Gibbs, ranked No. 205 this week following her career best 172 last week, claimed her third career ITF singles title, but her first since turning pro after completing her junior season with the Cardinal on a successful note. “First title as a pro player!!� she tweeted. “Excited to start all over in Portland on Weds.�

Her NCAA singles championship victory over Nebraska’s Mary Weatherholt, 6-2, 6-4, was her final amateur match, ending a Cardinal career that saw her win 30 of the 31 career matches she played in May. Her lone loss was to eventual 2011 champion Jana Juricova of California in the semifinal. Gibbs’ last title was in July of last year, when she beat Julie Coin in three sets in Denver. She played as an amateur. She also improved to 4-4 in ITF final matches. Gibbs, seeded eighth, went three sets to beat Israel’s No. 1 ranked woman Julia Glushko, 6-4, 2-6, 6-1, in the semifinals. Lisjak came into the tournament with seven ITF titles, but the 26year-old was looking for her first since October of 2010, when Gibbs was just beginning her freshman year at Stanford. Gibbs, 91-60 as a singles player on the tour, began play Wednesday in the $50,000 Oregon Challenger at the Tualatin Hills Tennis Center in Beaverton. She opened with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Nicole Melichar, earning a date with No. 2 seed Masaki Doi of Japan in the next round Thursday. Stanford sophomore Krista Hardebeck lost her opener in Oregon in straight sets. Gibbs received a wild card into the Bank of the West Classic. N

naments while doing her homework in the back of the car -— “that made me the person that I am right now on the court, it’s coming all from that,� she said almost proudly. “When I was younger they (the French Tennis Federation coaches) tried to switch me back to a onehanded forehand, but when they saw my one-handed forehand they said ‘OK that’s fine, just stick with yours!’� she laughed. “When I was watching the other players and then watching myself two meters inside the court returning a serve, I was like, ‘OK, I’m a bit different’.� But Bartoli is not someone who tries to be a certain way. She greets

the fabled tale of her higher-thanaverage IQ with a sort of embarrassment. “I’m not calling myself a genius,� she says. “I love to make fun of myself, I’m not the kind of person who is saying gosh I’m so perfect. “I’m totally the opposite, I’m probably doing a million stupid things a day, I’m just trying not to be a pain for the people around me, just to be normal. I will definitely want to stay like that because I just don’t want to change.� She’s a Wimbledon champion now. She doesn’t have to change a thing.N Alexandra Willis writes for Wimbledon.com

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four times against China with Wigo adding two. Against Serbia, Wigo and Azevedo each scored twice. * * * When Stanford’s Kiley Neushul is finished competing in Barcelona, she’ll join up with the USA team for the FINA Women’s Junior World Championships from Aug. 19-25 in Volos, Greece. She’ll be joined by Stanford teammate Ashley Grossman. The Americans will open against Kazakhstan on Aug. 19 before facing Italy and New Zealand. Before the women hit the pool in Greece, the USA men will compete in their FINA Junior World Championships, set for Aug. 12-18 in Szombathely, Hungary. Stanford will be represented by Adam Abdulhamid, Jackson Kimbell, Bret Bonanni and Bowen. The Americans will open against Spain on Aug. 12 before facing Slovakia and Russia in pool play. * * * Local pools will be busy this weekend as the 2013 US Open of Water Polo splashes down on the Mid-Peninsula. Action begins Friday and wraps up Sunday with matches being played at Gunn, Palo Alto and Sacred Heart Prep. Sacred Heart Prep will serve as the championship site, with the men’s gold-medal match set for Sunday at 4:30 p.m. First place in the women’s bracket will be decided at 3:15 p.m.

Third-place matches will be held at SHP at 12:30 p.m. (men) and 2 p.m. (women). The Newport Water Polo Foundation will defend its men’s title while the New York Athletic Club will defend its women’s crown. The Stanford men’s team will take part, opening on Friday against the defending champs at SHP starting at 1:20 p.m. Stanford will wrap up the first day of play at SHP by taking on Navy at 8:20 p.m. * * * The Stanford Boys Water Polo Club brought home two medals in four age divisions from the US Club Championships that wrapped up Sunday in Southern California. “We had a great weekend,� said Jon Barnea, whose program got a gold medal from the 12&U team and a silver from the 16&U squad. “The US Club Championships is the most competitive tournament hosted in the U.S., and our coaching staff did an amazing job leading our teams against the best teams in the country,� Barnea said. Stanford was one of only two programs to bring home more than one medal. The 12&U team, headed by Gunn coach Matt Johnson, went 6-0 while defeating Riverside (15-1), Northwood (10-8), SoCal (7-2), San Diego Shores (8-4), Lamorinda Water Polo (7-3) and Commerce in the championship match, 6-4. The Stanford 16s went 3-2-1 and earned the silver, thanks to winning at the right time. After losing to SET,

14-11, Stanford beat Lamorinda WP (11-4), lost to SoCal (11-8), defeated unbeaten Foothill (9-4) and San Diego Shores (12-9), before tying SoCal, 11-11, but losing the shootout (6-4) in the finals. SoCal went 3-0 in pool play while Stanford, Lamorinda and SET all went 1-2 in the bracket. Stanford earned the No. 2 seed by goal differential. Finishing second in the bracket earned the match with unbeaten Foothill, which hadn’t lost to any 16&U team this year. That win put Stanford into the title match. Brian Kreutzkamp, head coach at Sacred Heart Prep, guided the team’s fortunes. The Stanford 18&U team, meanwhile, finished 10th with a 3-2-1 record while the 14&U squad finished 13th with a 17-16 victory over Rose Bowl. Next up for the Stanford boys will be the National Junior Olympics, July 27-30 in Orange County. The girls’ Junior Olympics will run Aug. 1-4 at the same sites. N

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tanford grad Mark Appel, the No. 1 overall selection in this year’s First-Year Player Draft, lived up to that billing in his Midwest League debut. Appel, who was selected by Houston and signed quickly soon thereafter, threw four scoreless innings for Class A Quad Cities on Sunday, helping his team beat Dayton, 9-2, in 90-degree heat in Davenport,

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Iowa. Appel walked one and struck out three while not gaining the decision. “I’ve had a chance to meet a bunch of guys in Quad Cities now and build relationships,� Appel told Curt Rallo. “I’m enjoying the time I have here now. I don’t mind going around and seeing all the affiliates, versus going straight to Double-A. The goal in mind is being a Major League pitcher for as long as possible. As long as I’m working toward that goal in this short time I have for the rest of the season, I’ll be happy.� After rising quickly through shortseason ball, Appel said he didn’t see much of a difference in his first shot at full-season competition. “I think it’s pretty similar in regards to talent,� Appel told Doug Miller of MiLB.com. “In short-season, most are college guys who signed this year, compared to younger guys here in (Class A). But they’re very talented. In regards to differences, it’s still baseball. You still have to throw strikes — that’s my focus.� Appel’s command had been spotless before his Midwest debut. On Sunday, however, he walked a batter for the first time in three Minor League starts. “I left some of my off-speed stuff up more than I wanted to, and I missed with some pitches I usually like to see strikeouts on,� Appel told MiLB.com. “But considering it was my third start in about seven weeks, I’m not overly concerned about anything.� Appel, who celebrated his 22nd birthday on Monday, already has made some history by becoming a teammate of last year’s No. 1 overall pick, Carlos Correa. This is the first time consecutive top selections have been on the same Minor League team. In his three appearances in the minors (all starts), Appel has an ERA of 2.00 in nine innings, with nine strikeouts, one walk, eight hits and two earned runs. Appel said he’s using this time in the minors to “work on some things that I needed to work on� as well as acclimating himself to the Astros’ organization and how it’s run. He’s also learning how to pitch every fifth day and “to really understanding the differences between college baseball and professional baseball.� * * * Stanford grad and former No. 1 draft pick of the Colorado Rockies, Greg Reynolds, got the win for the International League in a 4-3 win over the Pacific Coast League in the 2013 Triple-A All-Star Game on Wednesday in Reno. Reynolds started the game and gave up two runs, but got the win when Tony Sanchez hit a three-run homer in the second for the International League. “It was fun,� Reynolds told MiLB. com. “Obviously, it didn’t go as smoothly as I was hoping for, but I have no regrets about it. It’s been such a fun experience. Reno’s put on quite a show and I loved every minute of it.�

A sellout crowd of 10,135 turned out for the game. Reynolds, who pitches for the Louisville Bats, the Triple-A affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds, leads the International League with a 10-2 record and a 2.54 ERA. He last pitched Friday, giving up a run on three hits over seven innings. Reynolds last pitched in the majors in 2011, with the Rockies. He was 3-0 with a 6.19 ERA in 13 games, three starts. He pitched for the Round Rock Express (Texas Rangers) last year, going 11-9 with a 5.30 ERA in 27 starts. Reynolds is off to his best start as a professional, with his 79 strikeouts already a career-high. * * * Houston Astros catcher Jason Castro, the seventh former Stanford baseball player to take part in the MLB All-Star Game, didn’t see any action Tuesday but was on the winning team as the American League prevailed, 3-0. Castro, 26, was named as a reserve catcher by manager Jim Leyland on the American League All-Star team for the game played at the New York Mets’ Citi Field. This is a first for Castro and a first for the Astros, who represented the American League in the All-Star Game for the first time in their 51year history. Castro is the second Astros catcher ever to make an AllStar team, joining Craig Biggio, who was an All-Star at that position in 1989 and 1991. Castro joined Jim Lonborg (1967), Bob Boone (1976, 1978-79, 1983), Ed Sprague (1991), Jack McDowell (1991-93), Mike Mussina (1992-94, 1997-98) and Carlos Quentin (2008, 2011) as former Stanford studentathletes to appear in the Midsummer Classic. The .248 career hitter has posted a .269 clip this season with 12 home runs and 31 RBI. After missing all of the 2011 season with a knee injury, Castro is on pace to hit more home runs than any other catcher in club history. Castro is among the American League leaders in doubles and has ranked alongside the league’s top catchers in doubles, homers, slugging percentage and hits. Chosen by the Houston Astros with the 10th overall pick of the 2008 MLB Draft, Castro finished his three-year Stanford career with a .309 average, 108 runs scored, 26 doubles, five triples, 18 home runs, 106 RBI and 11 stolen bases in 162 games (133 starts). * * * Palo Alto High grad Joc Pederson had a single, a walk, and scored a run to help U.S. defeat the World team, 4-2, in the annual Major League Baseball Futures Game on Sunday at Citi Field in New York. Pederson, regarded as the No. 2 minor league prospect for the Los Angeles Dodgers, plays for the Chattanooga Lookouts in the Double-A Southern League. N – Stanford Athletics contributed

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nterest in the Stanford football team is high, even with more than a month to go before the 2013 season kicks off. Quarterback Kevin Hogan is the latest player to be named to a preseason watch list as he was named to the Davey O’Brien Award list on Wednesday. Hogan is one of 34 players on the list with the award given to the best quarterback in the nation. Hogan, the Pac-12 Championship Game MVP, started and won the last five games of 2012-13 for Stanford. He won four straight games against as many ranked opponents to end regular season as well as defeating Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl Game. Despite his limited play, Hogan was Stanford’s second-leading rusher (263 yards) while quickly establishing himself as an accurate passer, completing nearly 72 percent of his attempts with nine touchdown passes against just three interceptions. Four other Stanford players — Ben Gardner, Trent Murphy, Shayne Skov and David Yankey — also have earned mentions on two watch lists, the Butkus Award and the Rotary Lombardi Award, released this week. Murphy and Skov headlined the day with the duo earning mention on both watch lists. Gardner and Yankey earned spots on the Lom-

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bardi Award watch list. Instituted in 1985, the Butkus Award recognizes the nation’s most outstanding linebacker. The Rotary Lombardi Award goes annually to the college football lineman — offense or defense — who, in addition to outstanding performance and ability, best exemplifies the discipline of Vince Lombardi. The watch lists mentions are the latest in a slew of preseason recognitions for a talent-laden Stanford team. Gardner, Murphy and Skov have all previously been named to the Bednarik Award watch list, presented to the College Defensive Player of the Year and the Bronko Nagurski Award watch list, presented to the best defensive player in college football. Yankey has been previously named to The Maxwell Award Watch List, given to America’s College Player of the Year, as well as

the Outland Trophy, presented to the nation’s top interior lineman.

Men’s basketball Stanford senior Dwight Powell scored 12 points and grabbed eight rebounds to lead Canada, but it wasn’t enough as Serbia won the bronze medal at the World University Games on Tuesday.

Women’s basketball Cardinal head coach Tara VanDerveer, who turned 60 last month, received a belated birthday present this week by signing a longterm contract extension with the school. VanDerveer, just six wins shy of becoming the fifth women’s basketball coach to reach the 900-win mark, had two years remaining on her old contract — through the 2014-15 season. Since her arrival at Stanford in 1985, VanDerveer has accumulated a record of 742-152 (.830) while

her career record stands at 894-203 (.815) through 34 years of coaching. While on The Farm she has led the Cardinal to 21 Pac-10/Pac-12 titles and 10 conference tournament crowns while capturing Pac-10/ Pac-12 Coach of the Year honors 13 times. Men’s golf Stanford’s Patrick Rodgers is one of five players named to 2013 USA Walker Cup Team in an announcement by the United States Golf Association. The 44th Walker Cup Match against Great Britain and Ireland will be played Sept. 7-8 at the National Golf Links of America in Southampton, N.Y., which is hosting the Match for the first time since it hosted the inaugural Walker Cup in 1922. There will be a total of 10 players named to the team. Rodgers is a returning USA Walker Cup Team member, having competed at the 2011 Match at Royal

Aberdeen Golf Club in Scotland. He wrapped up his 2013 sophomore season at Stanford with three intercollegiate victories and six top-10 finishes. For the second consecutive year, he was named first-team All-America. Rowing From outstanding, gold-medal performances on the men’s side, to setting a world-best time in the women’s eight, the 2013 World Rowing Cup No. 3 was a memorable one for the eight United States crews that won medals this past weekend in Lucerne, Switzerland. Stanford grad Elle Logan won her fourth world cup medal of the 2013 series on Sunday in the women’s single after finishing second. Stanford senior Austin Hack helped the men’s eight win a gold medal and, in the women’s eight, Stanford grad Grace Luczak took home a gold medal as the boat set a world-best time of 5:54.16. N

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